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Greetings! This week's newsletter hails a special episode for Sesame families. Also: There's opinion on Head Start deregulation and on a post by a noted poet who shares a mystical experience around "The Rainbow Connection."

https://madavis2u.substack.com/p/when-a-streamer-storms-ahead?r=cuwhq

This week's Sesame Substack is of special interest to those who snuck Sassy magazine into the house to read in bed with a flashlight.

https://madavis2u.substack.com/p/a-freakout-fanned-by-sassy-magazine?r=cuwhq

This week's Sesame Substack recalls a moment when Sassy fanned the flames of a rumor that Ernie was dead.

https://madavis2u.substack.com/p/a-freakout-fanned-by-sassy-magazine?r=cuwhq

Matt Vogel dishes on what it was like to have the Muppets of Sesame Street jam with their Disney cousins...in front of more than a billion viewers.

https://madavis2u.substack.com/p/for-matt-vogel-his-world-cup-runneth?r=cuwhq

Check out this week's Substack newsletter: https://open.substack.com/pub/madavis2u/p/the-count-does-not-suffer-from-arithmomania?r=cuwhq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

This week's Substack newsletter recalls a tempest in a sippy cup from 2010, when Katy Perry set off a kerfuffle that put the kibosh on a Sesame segment. The controversy was great fodder for Saturday Night Live, remember?

This week's Substack newsletter recalls a tempest on a sippy cup from 2010, when Katy Perry caused a kerfuffle, a yanked Sesame segment, and an SNL parody of the controversy.

https://madavis2u.substack.com/p/leave-it-to-cleavage?r=cuwhq

Talk amongst yourselves,

I'm a former Head Start teacher who wrote a book about Sesame Street. For 75 years we've known what kids 2-5 need to thrive, and yet we deny these things to millions of them. At the same time, we decry that kids can't read by the time they reach third grade. Why don't we make that connection?