This October would have marked the 12th anniversary of the first paper published in a new on-line journal called Astronomy Education Review (AER). Instead of celebrating that anniversary, however, it appears that we must face the fact that the journal will cease publication in its present form. After taking over the journal from its founding editors (Sidney Wolff and Andrew Fraknoi) and its founding publisher (the National Optical Astronomy Observatories) and subsidizing and publishing the journal for five years, the Council of the American Astronomical Society (with the advice of its Publications Board) decided that AER had too few papers, too few readers, and covered astronomy education too narrowly to be supported by the Society, with only a very small contribution from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific and a few small donations as outside income.