Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's moonlight schools : fighting for literacy in America
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 Commission in 1914, they were operating throughout Kentucky as well as in other states. Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's Moonlight Schools examines these institutions and analyzes Stewart's role in shaping education at both the state and national level
Print Book, English, ©2006
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, ©2006
Biography
ix, 248 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780813123783, 081312378X
62172717