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I think some valid points were made. It also saddens me that "love of books" takes a back seat to "learn to read". What went wrong? Has education quality decrea

I think some valid points were made. It also saddens me that "love of books" takes a back seat to "learn to read". What went wrong? Has education quality decreased? Has parenting quality decreased?

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DanBC 12y ago
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States > he study, the most comprehensive study of literacy ever commissioned by the U.S. government, was released in April 2002 and reapplied in 2003 giving trend data. It involved lengthy interviews of over 90,700 adults statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural) in 12 states across the U.S. and was designed to represent the U.S. population as a whole. This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information." Depends what you call literacy. The US has good rates of literacy (over 95%) but as can be seen from the study quoted in WP that doesn't seem to mean much if between 1/5 and 1/4 of the population can't use printed material to extract information.
feverray 12y ago
This article might not be partial at all. WP writes say "Reading Rainbow was cancelled abruptly in 2009 after nearly three decades on the air. Per John Grant, the content director at WNED Buffalo, which co-produced the series, it would have cost “several hundred thousand dollars” to renew the show — i.e. far less than what the Kickstarter is asking for now. But neither WNED nor PBS wanted to pony up because both believed that the show was no longer the best way to teach kids reading skills. " However if you google a little bit these two, you can find that PBS has a partnership with Washington Post. PBS said, in their website: "We’re very excited to announce this partnership because the Washington Post is an ideal partner for many reasons." Read: http://tinyurl.com/mj48log http://tinyurl.com/mj48log That lead me to think that Washington Post has actually some other interests they are not mentioning here, in order to write this article against Reading Rainbow.

I think some valid points were made. It also saddens me that "love of books" takes a back seat to "learn to read". What went wrong? Has education quality decreased? Has parenting quality decreased?

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DanBC 12y ago

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States > he study, the most comprehensive study of literacy ever commissioned by the U.S. government, was released in April 2002 and reapplied in 2003 giving trend data. It involved lengthy interviews of over 90,700 adults statistically balanced for age, gender, ethnicity, education level, and location (urban, suburban, or rural) in 12 states across the U.S. and was designed to represent the U.S. population as a whole. This government study showed that 21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information." Depends what you call literacy. The US has good rates of literacy (over 95%) but as can be seen from the study quoted in WP that doesn't seem to mean much if between 1/5 and 1/4 of the population can't use printed material to extract information.

feverray 12y ago

This article might not be partial at all. WP writes say "Reading Rainbow was cancelled abruptly in 2009 after nearly three decades on the air. Per John Grant, the content director at WNED Buffalo, which co-produced the series, it would have cost “several hundred thousand dollars” to renew the show — i.e. far less than what the Kickstarter is asking for now. But neither WNED nor PBS wanted to pony up because both believed that the show was no longer the best way to teach kids reading skills. " However if you google a little bit these two, you can find that PBS has a partnership with Washington Post. PBS said, in their website: "We’re very excited to announce this partnership because the Washington Post is an ideal partner for many reasons." Read: http://tinyurl.com/mj48log http://tinyurl.com/mj48log That lead me to think that Washington Post has actually some other interests they are not mentioning here, in order to write this article against Reading Rainbow.