Word: workshop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...workshop on negotiation techniques by a professor visiting the campus ended last night as a strategy session for students who have been asking the University for better Latino representation in the curriculum and faculty...
...BOTTOM LINE: The Children's Television Workshop tackles illiteracy in a new series, but forgets how to entertain...
...vast, often murky sea of kids' programming, the Children's Television Workshop has always been a beacon. From Sesame Street, the groundbreaking preschool show, through 3-2-1 Contact (focusing on science) and Square One TV (math), CTW has struck an almost ideal balance between education and entertainment. Its shows are savvy in the ways of television, imaginative, full of life. Above all, they respect young viewers' intelligence even while trying to teach them a thing...
Ghostwriter, the Workshop's newest offering, is trumpeted as its most ambitious effort since Sesame Street made its debut more than 20 years ago. A half-hour mystery-adventure series whose goal is to promote literacy among grade-school children, the show is part of a wide-ranging educational effort that includes a magazine, paperback books, teachers' guides and even Ghostwriter pens and T shirts. Who can quarrel with such a worthy aim? But who, alas, will believe this amateurish series comes from the same people who gave us Big Bird and Mathnet...
...good that someone is worried about children. But maybe it's the Children's Television Workshop that needs looking after...