 Cooney credited Palmer and his colleague at Harvard , Gerald S. Lesser , whom CTW hired to write the program 's educational objectives , for bridging the gap between producers and researchers . Cooney observed of the CTW model : " From the beginning , we — the planners of the project — designed the show as an experimental research project with educational advisers , researchers , and television producers collaborating as equal partners " . She described the collaboration as an " arranged marriage " . 
