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The American Education Week Story
What is it?
Every November, during the week which includes Veterans Day, an event known as American Education Week is observed throughout the United States. It is an audit, or annual report time....during which the schools tell their owners, the general public, about their purposes, methods, achievements, needs, and problems. How did it begin?
American Education Week grew out of the revelation, during World War I, that a shocking percentage of the American people were illiteate and physically unfit. Reprepresentatives of the National Education Association and the newly formed American Legion discussed this problem, and their talks led to the observance, in 1921, of the first American Education Week. The event was part of their plan for “securing for Ameica a program of education adequate to meet the needs of the Twentieth Century, and which will give every boy and girl that training and equipment which is righfully his under our democratic government.”
From 1922 on, the observance has been co-sponsored by the U.S. Office of Education (formerly the Bureau of Education). In 1938, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers became the fourth national sponsor.
Many other groups participate Farm, labor, business, professional, civic, religious, fraternal, welfare, service library and general cultural organizations help plan and finance many AEW projects and activities. What is the pupose of it?
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