Harvard graduate who attended VCOM honed leadership, academic skills at Spartanburg High. The Spartanburg Academic Movement (SAM) discussed ways to help students obtain a postsecondary education during a retreat on Thursday, June 30.
The future of Spartanburg County depends on improving our education system. That doesn’t just mean our schools. It includes the support system for those schools and the cultural expectations that affect our children.
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Officials rolled out the Spartanburg Academic Movement at the Milliken Customer Center on Tuesday morning, with Milliken signing on as a community partner to set the tone and encourage more partnerships.
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Last Monday we celebrated Veterans Day. This Monday we launch American Education Week. There is an interesting convergence between these events.
Given concern that 25 percent of the country's World War I draftees were illiterate, the American Legion met with educators in 1919 to seek ways to generate support for education. In 1921, the conventions of the American Legion and the National Education Association adopted resolutions for a national effort to raise public awareness, calling 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."
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