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LeVar Burton on the end of “Reading Rainbow”

LeVar Burton gave an interview on NPR yesterday about his thoughts on the end of Reading Rainbow, which I posted about a few weeks ago here. Burton, who speaks a bit at first about his years with Star Trek: The Next Generation and about how science fiction was his first reading love, says about [...]

“Reading Rainbow” reaches its end

PBS’s Reading Rainbow, hosted by LeVar Burton is going off the air after 26 years. Apparently, the higher-ups think we need to teach kids about phonics and forget about getting them to *want* to read. IMO, nothing makes a child, or an adult, learn something faster than the desire to do so. [...]

What book would you read for the first time again?

Sharing this great post from PBS’s Booklights. The question asked was, what book do you wish you could read for the first time, all over again? Since Booklights is a site for education and parents, many of the answers are children’s or young adult books.

Me? It’s hard to pick, of course. I’d be [...]