Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street (1974) is a non-fiction book written by Gerald S. Lesser, in which he describes the production of "Sesame Street", and the formation and pedagogical philosophy of the Children's Television Workshop. Lesser was a professor at Harvard University, studying how social class and ethnicity interacted with school achievement and was one of the first academics in the US who researched how watching television affected children and their development. He was initially skeptical about the potential of using television as a teaching tool, but he was eventually named
Mark S. Golub Robert Brown. Golub also enjoys baseball. Mark S. Golub Mark S. Golub (born May 10, 1945) is an American rabbi, media entrepreneur, personality and educator. He created the first Russian language television channel produced in America, RTN (The Russian Television Network of America) and the Jewish television channel Shalom TV. Golub is the rabbi of two small congregations in Connecticut, Chavurah Aytz Chayim (Stamford, CT) and Chavurah Deevray Torah (Greenwich, CT), but is best known as the host of "L'Chayim", a talk show he created in 1979 in which he interviews prominent Jewish figures. Golub was born in New York