Can you teach kids today to tackle social issues - and make it fun? (Hint: Think protest songs from the 60s.) episode artwork

EPISODE · Jul 6, 2024 · 28 MIN

Can you teach kids today to tackle social issues - and make it fun? (Hint: Think protest songs from the 60s.)

from TWO REPORTERS · host David K. Shipler & Daniel Zwerdling

Sesame Street changed TV by using music to help kids learn how to spell and how to share. Singer-songwriter Anya Rose and the group Ants on a Log write social action songs to help children in primary school learn edgier lessons, about problems from environmental pollution to racist and sexist behavior - inspired in part by 60s satirist Tom Lehrer. After hearing these tunes, the 9-year-olds in your family might feel inspired to research a problem in your own neighborhood - and then write your members of Congress about it! 

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