Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's moonlight schools : fighting for literacy in America /

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baldwin, Yvonne Honeycutt, 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006.
Temas:
Stewart, Cora Wilson, > 1875-1958.
Stewart, Cora Wilson, > 1875-1958
Stewart, Cora Wilson.
1900-1999
Geschichte 1900-1960
Educators > Kentucky > Biography.
Literacy > Kentucky > History > 20th century.
Adult education > Kentucky > History > 20th century.
Éducateurs > Kentucky > Biographies.
Éducation des adultes > Kentucky > Histoire > 20e siècle.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Educators.
EDUCATION > History.
EDUCATION > Comparative.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Adult education
Educators
Literacy
Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
Abendschule
Kentucky
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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