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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書誌詳細
第一著者: Baldwin, Yvonne Honeycutt, 1947-
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky ©2006.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt2jcqp9
目次:
  • 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.