Education

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 27, 2022) – The Ronald Reagan Foundation and Institute’s Center for Civics, Education, and Opportunity (CCEO) will host “Our Civics: Safeguarding American Democracy” today at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. The event, in partnership with More Perfect, will feature prominent voices examining the shared connection and importance of civic education and democracy.

BOSTON (May 3, 2022)––PRX, PBS KIDS, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced a Ready To Learn Podcast Accelerator training program for five teams of public media producers from stations across the United States to develop new educational on-demand audio programming for children ages 2-8 and their caregivers. This podcast training is part of the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Education.  

NEW YORK (February 28, 2022) — The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) today announced the selection of 12 public media stations to participate in a grant program to create content by, with, and for tween and teen audiences. As part of the By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences project, each station will receive a $15,000 grant to support their local work with tweens and teens (ages 10-18). 

January 24, 2022 – Gina Masciola, Managing Director of Education, and Cathy Cook, Director of Education at WQED in Pittsburgh, have been named the joint recipients of the 2022 Bobbi English Champion for Children Award from Sesame Workshop, PBS, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The award, announced at today’s virtual CPB Thought Leader Forum, recognizes Cook and Masciola for their dedication to the enrichment and engagement of children in their local community.

ARLINGTON, VA (January 18, 2022) – Today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour, PBS KIDS announced WORK IT OUT WOMBATS!, a new animated series for kids ages 3-6 from GBH Kids and Pipeline Studios. WORK IT OUT WOMBATS! stars Malik, Zadie, and Zeke—three energetic and creative marsupial siblings who live with their grandmother in her treehouse apartment complex.

NEW YORK, N.Y. (November 3, 2021) — The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop today announced the launch of an ambitious new phase of the By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences initiative (Next Gen Public Media). With funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the project will work with public media stations to create meaningful content by, with, and for today’s young people to meet their unique educational, community, and career-focused needs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (October 5, 2021) -- The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS today announced partnerships with 10 public media stations across the country centered on an innovative model of community engagement designed to extend the reach and impact of Ready To Learn-funded PBS KIDS early learning resources to local communities. Arkansas PBS, Georgia Public Broadcasting, Ball State PBS (Muncie, IN), Nine PBS (St.

NEW YORK, NY (May 24, 2021) -- Despite access to an overwhelming abundance of digital options for learning, playing, and communicating, tweens and teens want media that represents them more authentically and can be trusted, according to a new report released today by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop.

Fred Rogers Productions, the award-winning children’s entertainment company behind the much-loved, Emmy-winning PBS KIDS series Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Odd Squad, and Peg + Cat, has secured a $3 million, multi-year funding grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) for Donkey Hodie. The highly anticipated, multiplatform puppet series for preschoolers, which is produced by Fred Rogers Productions and Spiffy Pictures (Nature Cat), launches May 3, 2021, on PBS KIDS.

January 27, 2021 -- Cindy Putman, Ready To Learn Project Manager at WCTE Central Tennessee PBS in Cookeville, Tennessee, was named recipient of the 2021 Bobbi English Champion for Children Award from Sesame Workshop, PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The award, recognizing Putman for her dedication to the enrichment and engagement of children in their local community, includes $15,000, funded by Sesame Workshop, for WCTE to be used to support early childhood work that reaches underserved children in vulnerable communities.