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Educational Priorities
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Thu, 29 May 2003 19:36:53 GMT
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"'Reading Rainbow' fights for survival"
http://www.cnn.com/2003/EDUCATION/05/29/reading.rainbow.ap/index.html#
NEW YORK (AP) -- In a plea for the life of "Reading Rainbow," host LeVar Burton
returned to a familiar setting: the stage where he picked up the PBS show's
seventh Emmy Award for best children's television series.
[snip]
"Reading Rainbow" has several strikes against it in the battle for funding. For
starters, it has no access to merchandise licensing deals, an increasingly
important part of PBS' funding scheme for children's shows. There are no
"Reading Rainbow" action figures to sell, no "Reading Rainbow" jammies to keep
kids warm at night.
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And if our school system was great or literacy close to 100%, this story would
be less interesting.
A republic like our own depends upon an informed citizenry. What does this
story tell you?
-- Hop-Frog
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| (...) It tells me that a television show these days must entertain as well as educate. Unfortunately no matter how hard I try to get my son to watch this show, he simply will not. He has been able to read since he was three, but finds this show (...) (21 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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