CPB, PBS Team to Support Early Learning in Low-Income Communities with New Digital Content

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS KIDS announced that they have partnered with five PBS stations to provide educational multimedia content to low-income communities.

CPB awarded a total of $444,222 to these stations to test the effectiveness of digital content developed through Ready To Learn (RTL), a cooperative agreement funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Innovation and Improvement, to support the development of early math and literacy skills for children ages 2-8 in low-income families. Over the next year, five public television stations – Nashville Public Television (Nashville, TN), Louisiana Public Broadcasting (Baton Rouge, LA), KLRU (Austin, TX), New Mexico PBS (Albuquerque, NM) and PBS SoCal (Santa Ana, CA) – will serve as demonstration sites to implement RTL content with children, teachers and families. These stations will collaborate with educational partners in school, after-school, and summer settings, training educators in their communities to use RTL content with their students and teaching parents how to engage their children in math and literacy activities at home using a range of technologies, including computers, smart phones, tablets, and television.