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| - The Ready To Learn Service is a nationwide effort using on-air, online and print resources and local support to help parents and early childhood educators prepare children for success in school. Services were first launched in 1994, and are conducted by PBS stations, broadcasting high quality PBS KIDS television programs like Sesame Street to 93 percent of the country including 93 million homes with 37 million children. Local stations further build partnerships with community organizations such as childcare centers, schools, libraries, businesses, civic groups, and government agencies.
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| - The Ready To Learn Service is a nationwide effort using on-air, online and print resources and local support to help parents and early childhood educators prepare children for success in school. Services were first launched in 1994, and are conducted by PBS stations, broadcasting high quality PBS KIDS television programs like Sesame Street to 93 percent of the country including 93 million homes with 37 million children. Local stations further build partnerships with community organizations such as childcare centers, schools, libraries, businesses, civic groups, and government agencies. The Ready To Learn Service's official website describes Sesame Street’s goals as follows: Sesame Street encourages children to
* take beginning steps toward reading, writing, mathematics and science
* learn about feelings and how to cope with emotions
* appreciate cultural diversity by modeling people who differ in appearance, action, or point of view playing together, working together, making friends, and resolving conflicts
* appreciate the arts in a variety of forms including visual art, music, and dance and create their own art as they develop the concept, "I am an artist."
* learn about the body and how to keep it healthy and safe Other Ready To Learn television programs include Arthur, Dragon Tales, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Between the Lions, Reading Rainbow, Maya & Miguel, and Postcards from Buster.
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