[NLA] National Literacy Day?

[Sioux Falls Area Literacy Council]

Hey M Cecil Smith -

It IS interesting, isn't it.  How about THIS one?!  There's ANOTHER one!  A
Family Literacy Day in the first week of November!!  In our area we Vy for
media attention between Sept. 8th (which our community-based literacy
program celebrates because our Mother Organization - Laubach - got us
started) and the Celebrity Reads to a Child of the Even Start program
celebrating Family Literacy Day -- right across the STREET from us!!

Isn't this hilarious?  Can't we get it together somehow???  I'd like to have
the celebrations all one day because when the literary clubs come rollin'
around sometime after the first of the year THEY celebrate a national
literary day.  Even MORE confusing.

Nancy Hansen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Winston Lawrence" <winstonl at lacnyc.org>
To: <nla at lists.literacytent.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [NLA] National Literacy Day?


> Thanks to Daphne and Cecil. Isn't this interesting? International Literacy
> Day was designated since 1967 by the United Nations as a day to highlight
> the importance of literacy in the development process. The day is
> celebrated all across the globe.( US Citizens hardly hear about it.) Why
> should the US declare its own National Literacy Day on July 2? Why did
> Congress and Senior President Bush agree to have a separate day? This is
so
> funny! Declaring National Literacy Day when children are on vacation and
> schools are officially closed for the summer. Are they against the work of
> the United Nations? Was it to deflect the world's attention from the
> illiteracy problem in the US?  Would it not make more sense to join with
> the rest of the world in declaring war on illiteracy domestically in the
> same way that we seek other nations' help when we want to declare physical
> war on other nations?
> winston
> At 11:30 AM 7/2/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >Who knew? Geez, I thought Sept. 8 was National Literacy Day. Or is that
> >International Literacy Day? Or Literacy Appreciation Day? Why do we have
> >two dates (7/2 and 9/8) designated as literacy day--how is one different
> >from the other? How should each be acknowledged and "celebrated"? Seems
> >like there are several issues at root here: (1) forgetting our history,
(2)
> >general lack of focus in the "literacy field", and (3) inattention to
> >important symbolic events that call to mind the significant role of
> >literacy in society.
> >
> >Thanks, Daphne, for bringing this to our attention.
> >
> >Daphne Greenberg wrote: "Today is National Literacy Day and it is
> >interesting to me that we don't
> >make much of a deal out of it."
> >
> >
> >M Cecil Smith, Ph.D.
> >Professor of Educational Psychology
> >Northern Illinois University
> >
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