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Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America
Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools Fighting for Literacy in America
Author: Yvonne Honeycutt Baldwin
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 designe...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813123783
ISBN-10: 081312378X
Publication Date: 3/3/2006
Pages: 270
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Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Book Type: Hardcover
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