November 10, 1969

This was the first day upon which someone could tune their TV into a National Education Television station and here the now culturally pervasive jingle, “Sunny days keeping the clouds away….”

Yes, forty years ago today Sesame Street was born on the ailing network soon to be replaced by the federally funded Public Broadcasting System.

From the beginning, Sesame Street was developed with a curriculum in mind, and a philosophy that education and entertainment should be integrated - and an understanding that it was okay to pursue broad educational goals because a breadth of topics would be more likely to …