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American Education Week Essay Winners
Each year the Carlisle Area School District holds an essay contest to coincide with American Education Week sponsored by the National Education Association. The contest revolves around the theme “Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility.” From this theme, separate questions are developed for each of the three categories – elementary, middle and high school. Winners are selected from all submissions by a building-level team of teachers. Winners are then invited to read their winning essay aloud to school board members, teachers, parents, family and community members at an honor reception.
Elementary Question - Grades 4 and 5: What makes your school a great public school?
Middle School Question: John Lubbock is quoted as saying, “The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the desire to learn.” Identify and explain how a teacher has helped inspire you to learn something. What character traits did he or she have that drove you to achieve? High School Question: “To get the education is our right; to spread the education is our duty.” Based on this anonymous quotation, how will you take the knowledge learned in high school and begin to shape and impact the future of our country and of the global community?
Click the link below to view the list of 2009 winners and their winning essays.
- 2009 American Education Essay Winners
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