moonlog

Ooooh. The recession and a shortage of public money doesn’t help, but this one can be choked up to yet another legacy of the Bush administration:

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.