Edward L. Palmer


 * Dr. Edward L. Palmer was a media educator, researcher, author, and advocate, with extensive international experience in media planning and applications. He is a native of Oregon, holds a Ph.D. degree in Educational Measurement and Research Design from Michigan State University, and has held university appointments at Florida State University, Harvard, and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.


 * Dr. Palmer shared in founding the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) and the preschool children's television series, Sesame Street. He was Vice President/Research at CTW for 19 years.


 * While at CTW, Dr. Palmer played a role in the creation of 3 major adult TV series, including the Feeling Good health series, an adult drama series on U.S. history called The Best of Families, and the 50-episode Latin American Health Minutes, in addition to The Electric Company, a children's TV series on reading; 3-2-1 Contact, a children's TV series on science; and numerous overseas adaptations of Sesame Street. More recently, he participated as a producer of Al Manaahil ("The Sources"), a TV series created by CTW in Jordan to teach reading of Arabic to Arab children and adults, and was a consultant to the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Programs on the creation of "The Equatorial Trilogy," 3 75-minute made-for-TV feature films produced in Indonesia on the subject of health and the environment.

Edward L. Palmer passed away in August 1999.