| Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air | |
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+7Root Admin Mikey Go WOOGA Animir Drabbler King Bee Sparrow KelinciHutan 11 posters |
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KelinciHutan Global Nomad
Join date : 2009-06-03 Age : 39 Location : USS Enterprise
| Subject: Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:09 pm | |
| Yeah, it's true. I loved this show, growing up. I've always wanted to meet LeVar Burton to thank him for this show more than anything else he's done, because this is a good part of why I love to read so much now. - Quote :
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." So, I am sad. It is an awesome show, and I'll be sad to see it go if there's no way to save it. | |
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Sparrow Sporkbender
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 38 Location : West Peoria, IL
| Subject: Re: Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:30 pm | |
| - KelinciHutan wrote:
- I loved this show, growing up. I've always wanted to meet LeVar Burton to thank him for this show more than anything else he's done, because this is a good part of why I love to read so much now.
Quoted for truth. And I loved that LeVar Burton would also teach other things, that were referenced in books - using sand for artwork, dying wool, etc. I think I learned more about the world outside of my community watching Reading Rainbow than I did in social studies. It's a shame no one will put up the funding. It's great to teach the hows, but we still need to show the whys for reading as well. | |
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King Bee Sporkbender
Join date : 2009-06-11 Age : 34
| Subject: Re: Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:32 pm | |
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Drabbler Sporkbender
Join date : 2009-06-11 Age : 134
| Subject: Re: Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air Fri Aug 28, 2009 3:00 pm | |
| I knew it was still on but not that it was still producing new episodes; the few times I've seen it recently, they were running episodes from the '80s. | |
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Animir Sporkbender
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 37 Location : Vermont
| Subject: Re: Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:35 pm | |
| Well, that sucks. I'd hold out hope for a DVD release, but there's probably no money for that, either. (And my mother thought I was crazy for DVRing it!) | |
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Mikey Go WOOGA NO NOT THE BEEEEES
Join date : 2009-06-16 Age : 34 Location : In desperate pursuit of lulz.
| Subject: Re: Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:29 pm | |
| Gee, I had totally forgotten this show existed. :hmm: | |
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Root Admin Administrator
Join date : 2009-06-03 Age : 35 Location : 997
| Subject: Re: Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:35 pm | |
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Mikey Go WOOGA NO NOT THE BEEEEES
Join date : 2009-06-16 Age : 34 Location : In desperate pursuit of lulz.
| Subject: Re: Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:41 pm | |
| ^ It's pictures like that that make me love the internet. :roflmao: | |
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EileenK98 Recovering Fanbrat
Join date : 2009-06-10 Age : 55 Location : very, very close to Chris
| Subject: Re: Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air Sat Aug 29, 2009 7:14 am | |
| As someone who learned to read from public television, I weep bitter tears for the future. | |
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quamp Sporkbender
Join date : 2009-06-11 Location : Locked away in Suburban hell
| Subject: Re: Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air Sat Aug 29, 2009 6:41 pm | |
| PBS taught me how to read too, although it was the original The Electric Company that did it. Unfortuantely, people seem to have lost a fundamental truth - the more entertaining one makes learning, the more people will be willing to do it. | |
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Reepicheep-chan Important Person
Join date : 2009-06-11 Age : 38 Location : IN A SEXY NEW CONDO
| Subject: Re: Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:31 pm | |
| Yeah, this whole push from 'teaching why to read' to 'teaching how to read' is a bunch of srs BS. You can teach yourself how to read if LaVar Burton fucking tells you that you should. Besides that, just imagining a TV show teaching me how to read gives me a head ache.
Still I would be more sad about it if I had even known the show was still on the air. | |
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Chris91 Knight of the Bleach
Join date : 2009-06-13 Age : 57 Location : Salem, Mass., USA
| Subject: Re: Reading Rainbow Going Off The Air Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:49 pm | |
| - KelinciHutan wrote:
- Yeah, it's true.
I loved this show, growing up. I've always wanted to meet LeVar Burton to thank him for this show more than anything else he's done, because this is a good part of why I love to read so much now.
- Quote :
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." So, I am sad. It is an awesome show, and I'll be sad to see it go if there's no way to save it. Same here. PBS without Reading Rainbow is like London without Big Ben. | |
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