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| | Children's Television Workshop |
 | | Children's Television Workshop (CTW) is a nonprofit organization created in 1967 for the purpose of producing the educational program Sesame Street. |
 | | CTW was headed by Joan Ganz Cooney, a television producer who, with Lloyd Morrisett of the Markle Foundation, attracted funding from federal and private sources, including the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, the National Institutes of Mental Health, the Carnegie and Ford foundations, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. |
 | | Sesame Street, designed to promote the intellectual and cultural growth of preschoolers, particularly disadvantaged preschoolers, revolutionized children's educational television when it premiered in 1969 and established the Workshop's model for program development and research regarding children and television. |
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