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Re:'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter by presidentender on Monday August 31, 2009 @10:23PM (#797169)
That's a valid question. I changed it because my point in submitting it was to draw attention to this part of the article:

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.

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Re:'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter by ellyagg on Monday August 31, 2009 @11:28PM (#797289)
And as the editorial in the title is not straightforwardly implied by that line, we can confirm that the headline was crafted to provoke outrage.
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Re:'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter by roundsquare on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @01:27AM (#797458)
So I guess the question is... is this due to a reduction in kids' ability to read or is it that we've just realized now that we're focusing on the wrong thing?

HN is a pretty specialized group so the fact that RR inspired a lot of people here isn't great data.

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Re:'Reading Rainbow' Reaches Its Final Chapter by tokenadult on Tuesday September 01, 2009 @09:21AM (#797951)
HN is a pretty specialized group so the fact that RR inspired a lot of people here isn't great data.

Very good point.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

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