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Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Electronic reproduction
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081312378X
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0813171652
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0813138329
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9780813123783
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9780813171654
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9780813138329
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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 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-244) and index
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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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Electronic reproduction
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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English
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ISBN 081312378X
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ISBN 9780813123783
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Baldwin, Yvonne Honeycutt, 1947- Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's moonlight schools Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2006
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