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August 28, 2009 9:32 am
'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter [Link]

(via squashed)

The show’s run is ending, Grant explains, because no one — not the station, not PBS, not the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — will put up the several hundred thousand dollars needed to renew the show’s broadcast rights.

Grant says the funding crunch is partially to blame, but the decision to end Reading Rainbow can also be traced to a shift in the philosophy of educational television programming. The change started with the Department of Education under the Bush administration, he explains, which wanted to see a much heavier focus on the basic tools of reading — like phonics and spelling.

I feel old and sad. Is there really no longer room for a show that teaches kids to love books?

There will be no butterfly in the sky. LeVar Burton will not go twice as high. George Bush killed Reading Rainbow. 

  1. formerlyknownasyellowbricks reblogged this from squashed
  2. transparentcommunity reblogged this from frecklesmakemestrong and added:
    THIS IS HORSECRAP!!! I can’t tell you how much I learned from Reading Rainbow!
  3. rjlupins reblogged this from tea-and-misanthropy
  4. salishere reblogged this from robot-heart and added:
    (looks up in to the sky) NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BASTARDS!
  5. frecklesmakemestrong reblogged this from squashed and added:
    There will be no butterfly in the sky. LeVar Burton will not go twice as high. George Bush killed Reading Rainbow.
  6. starline reblogged this from ceallaigh and added:
    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :( (But don’t take my word for it….)
  7. oldtobegin reblogged this from love-and-radiation and added:
    it’s a very sad thought that, as a nation, we’re so obsessed with the competitive numbers game of educational statistics...
  8. joberholtzer reblogged this from peroty and added:
    I too am more saddened by this than I would have expected, given that I had no idea the show was still on the air. Maybe...
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  10. ucantmakefriendswithsalad reblogged this from think4yourself and added:
    I grew up with this show and I think its tragic that its ending. I am an early childhood educator and even though...
  11. dmoshow reblogged this from squashed and added:
    This is some of the worst news I have heard today. My love for Reading Rainbow is not purely nostalgic. As an elementary...
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  15. tea-and-misanthropy reblogged this from squashed and added:
    this is so, so sad.
  16. peroty reblogged this from squashed and added:
    Reading was fundamental!
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