Reading Rainbow Host Embraces Digital Reading

The Chicago Tribune (10/29) runs an article about LeVar Burton, the long-time host of PBS early literacy program Reading Rainbow, discussing his passion for literacy. "The series, with its heartfelt embrace of bound, physical books and bricks-and-mortar libraries, seems at first quaint in this era of tablets in classrooms and preschoolers on e-readers." However, Burton is still a prominent figure in education circles, even garnering "face time wit Secretary of Education Arne Duncan." The piece notes that Burton has relaunched the series of iTunes and launched an associated iPad app, and relates his enthusiasm for digital learning via tablet computers.