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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 the Moonlight School movement, ultimately designed to combat illiteracy. The movement's motto, "Each one teach one," characterized education as the responsibility of every literate citizen. Stewart's Moonlight Schools caught on quickly, and when the state legislature created the Kentucky Illiteracy Co. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 248 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0813171652 9780813171654 9780813138329 0813138329 1283232790 9781283232791 9786613232793 6613232793 |