The film discusses the innovative use of television as a teaching tool for children, particularly through programs like "Sesame Street" and "The Electric Company," created under the leadership of Joan ...

The onetime psychology teacher and Joan Ganz Cooney also founded the Children's Television Workshop and 'The Electric Company.' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Morrisett died Sunday of natural causes at ...

At age 82, I am in the middle part of the risky phase of life called life review. Like any life, mine has had successes and failures, and things good and bad. One chapter of my professional life, in ...

His observations about his 3-year-old daughter’s viewing habits led him to join Joan Ganz Cooney in creating a program that revolutionized children’s television. By Richard Sandomir The beloved ...

Lloyd Morrisett, who helped pave the way for “Sesame Street,” died Monday at the age of 93. Morrisett and Joan Ganz Cooney began working on the Children’s Television Workshop, which would later spawn ...

"Without Lloyd Morrisett, there would be no Sesame Street," co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney wrote in Sesame Workshop's announcement. "It was he who first came up with the notion of using television to ...