Mad about Reading Rainbow? Blame Bush.
Author: Sterling Heltzel | Filed under: Uncategorized
It is understandable that with the cancellation of Reading Rainbow after over 70 years, 20 years on PBS, some of year are asking who it is that they must kill to get the show back on the air. NPR laid out the whole situation and this left-wing propaganda site has determined based on their evidence, that it is George W. Bush and the Secretary of Education’s fault. Actually, without even putting my biased snot-nose spin on it, it’s pretty much entirely his fault no matter what way you slice it. That and the fact that nobody wants to pay to fund the show anymore.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112312561
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.
Grant says that PBS, CPB and the Department of Education put significant funding toward programming that would teach kids how to read — but that’s not what Reading Rainbow was trying to do.
“Reading Rainbow taught kids why to read,” Grant says. “You know, the love of reading — [the show] encouraged kids to pick up a book and to read.”
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