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In the aftermath of World War I, and with one-room schools still in existence, two organizations made an unlikely pairing to promote public support for education.
Alarmed that 25 percent of the country’s WWI draftees were illiterate, the NEA and the American Legion passed resolutions at their respective conventions in 1919 advocating for a national effort to raise public awareness about the importance of education. Two years later, American Education Week was born.
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