[NLA] National Literacy Day?

[Gloria Nudelman]

Really???  I didn't know this either!!!

Isn't congress still in session?  Seems like we should celebrate a day
when legislators are in their home states so we can get 'em out to our projects.

At first I thought International Literacy Day, September 8, might be a
good day to celebrate because it is the same week as Labor Day.
Evidently legislators are usually home in any week that contains a
federal holiday.

But this year International Literacy Day falls on a Sunday.  Sunday is
not good for celebrating, and too far away from Labor Day which is the
previous Monday.

Shucks.
Gloria Nudelman
Redwood City Even Start Coordinator, CA

M C Smith 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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