Bob Dorough, the jazzman who created the clever and enduring Schoolhouse Rock toons that taught grammar, math, science, and citizenship to a generation of TV-watching kids, has died. He was 94. His ...

A young generation befuddled by math began to learn the multiplication tables by singing “Three is a Magic Number.” That song, by Bob Dorough, first ran on children’s shows as a three-minute animation ...

I was born in Toronto, Canada and raised in an Israeli household where Hebrew was spoken and international events were discussed almost exclusively. When I moved to Ohio in the early 90s, I was ...

A wide cross-section of musicians share how 'Schoolhouse Rock' informed their growth as songwriters and students. By Ron Hart For a generation of young minds tuned to ABC on Saturday mornings in the ...

The educational snippets are the ultimate font of Gen X nostalgia. But what is it we’re nostalgic for? By James Poniewozik When I was in second grade, my teacher held a contest: The first students to ...

George Newall, the co-creator of the educational musical cartoon series “Schoolhouse Rock,” has died. He was 88. Newall’s wife, Lisa Maxwell, told the New York Times he died of cardiopulmonary arrest ...