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"Reading Rainbow comes to the end of its 26-year run on Friday; it has won more than two-dozen Emmys, and is the third longest-running children's show in PBS history — outlasted only by Sesame Street and Mister Rogers.....
....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.
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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This makes me so sad. I'll reiterate what someone in the comments section of this post said: "exciting kids about reading might motivate kids to learn to read, did that not occur to these folks?"
Post by Plum Puddin' on Aug 31, 2009 21:12:54 GMT -5
My little brother is 9ish years younger than me. When he was a little bitty kid, and i was in high school, i was kind of an outsider (i.e. i wasn't so popular in school :/ ), so i spent a lot of time with him. One of our favorite things to do (he was like 5 and i was around 14) was to make Lincoln Log houses and watch Reading Rainbow. I guess my memories of that time should be kind of bittersweet because they are basically caused by my lack of social skills/interaction with people my age, but they actually are really good memories, and me and my brother have a really good relationship now even though we are pretty far apart in age. I dunno. This makes me kinda' sad to know its going off the air, but it brings up oddly happy memories for me, too.
My little brother is 9ish years younger than me. When he was a little bitty kid, and i was in high school, i was kind of an outsider (i.e. i wasn't so popular in school :/ ), so i spent a lot of time with him. One of our favorite things to do (he was like 5 and i was around 14) was to make Lincoln Log houses and watch Reading Rainbow. I guess my memories of that time should be kind of bittersweet because they are basically caused by my lack of social skills/interaction with people my age, but they actually are really good memories, and me and my brother have a really good relationship now even though we are pretty far apart in age. I dunno. This makes me kinda' sad to know its going off the air, but it brings up oddly happy memories for me, too. 
