Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's moonlight schools : fighting for literacy in America /
Cora Wilson Stewart (1875-1958) was an elementary school teacher and county school superintendent in eastern Kentucky who, in the fall of 1911, decided to open the classrooms in her district to adult pupils. Convinced that education could eliminate the poverty that plagued the region, she founded th...
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| Formatua: | Licensed eBooks |
| Hizkuntza: | ingelesa |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky
©2006.
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| Sarrera elektronikoa: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jcqp9 |
Aurkibidea:
- Introduction: Creating "Miss Cora"
- The making of a reformer
- The moonlight campaign
- Moonlight schools and progressivism
- Nationalizing the illiteracy campaign
- The national crusade against illiteracy
- A new vision.