American Education Week Poster Contest
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Curriculum Steering Committee (CSC) |
A Partnership Celebrating Public Education!American Education Week spotlights the importance of providing every child in America with a quality public education from kindergarten through college, and the need for everyone to do his or her part in making public schools great. The annual tagline, Public Education : The Foundation of Democracy, reflects the Warren Consolidated Schools and Warren Education Association’s calling upon America to provide students with quality public schools so that they can grow, prosper, and achieve in the 21st century. The History of American Education WeekThe National Education Association was one of the creators and original sponsors of American Education Week. Distressed that 25 percent of the country's World War I draftees were illiterate and 9 percent were physically unfit, representatives of the NEA and the American Legion met in 1919 to seek ways to generate public support for education. The conventions of both organizations subsequently adopted resolutions of support for a national effort to raise public awareness of the importance of education. In 1921, the NEA Representative Assembly in Des Moines, Iowa, called for designation of one week each year to spotlight education. In its resolution, the NEA called for: "An educational week ... observed in all communities annually for the purpose of informing the public of the accomplishments and needs of the public schools and to secure the cooperation and support of the public in meeting those needs." The first observance of American Education Week occurred December 4-10, 1921, with the NEA and American Legion as the cosponsors. A year later, the then U.S. Office of Education joined the effort as a cosponsor, and the PTA followed in 1938. Other co-sponsors are the U.S. Department of Education and national organizations including the National PTA, the American Legion, the American Association of School Administrators, the National School Boards Association, the American Federation of Teachers, the American School Counselor Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the National School Public Relations Association, the National Association of State Boards of Education, the National Association of Elementary School Principals, and the National Association of Secondary School Principals. American Education Week is always celebrated the week prior to the week of Thanksgiving. |
Brian J. Walmsley, Ed.S Dr. Marianne Ochalek Gail Curi Christine Lewis Karen Gelardi Mike Schulte Michelle Adragna Doris Duzyj John Foradori Lynnette Macieczni Anthony Viviano |
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2012/2013 Poster Contest Winners
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