Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools

Author: Yvonne Honeycutt Baldwin
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ISBN: B0078XFMFK

Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America

The first woman elected superintendent of schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, Cora Wilson Stewart (1875--1958) realized that a major key to overcoming the illiteracy that plagued her community was to educate adult illiterates. Download Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. To combat this problem, Stewart opened up her schools to adults during moonlit evenings in the winter of 1911. The result was the creation of the Moonlight Schools, a grassroots movement dedicated to eliminating illiteracy in one generation. Following Stewart's lead, educators across the nation began to develop similar literacy programs; within a few years, Moonlight Schools had emerged in Minnesota, South Carolina, and other states. Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools examines these institutions and an Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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