Sadly, PBS’s groundbreaking program Reading Rainbow broadcast its final episode last Friday after 26 years, led by host LeVar Burton. It was the third-longest running children’s show on PBS, after Sesame Street and Mister Rogers, winning two dozen Emmys along the way. John Grant at public broadcaster WNED in Buffalo said that no was willing to invest the six-figure sum needed to renew the show’s broadcast rights. NPR says the lack of support is due in part to a “change in philosophy as to how television should teach reading,” placing a “heavier focus on the basic tools of reading — […]
