Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools: Fighting for Literacy in America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813123783)

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. 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, educato

Author: Yvonne Honeycutt Baldwin
ISBN-10: 081312378X
ISBN-13: 9780813123783
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2006
Pages: 258
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.14h x 6.40w x 1.01d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 2.5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
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