Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's moonlight schools
Subtitle: fighting for literacy in America
By: Yvonne Honeycutt Baldwin.
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky; University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780813123783
Subjects: Stewart, Cora Wilson, 1875-1958; Educators -- Kentucky -- Biography; Literacy -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century; Adult education -- Kentucky -- History -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: creating "Miss Cora"; title: The making of a reformer; title: The moonlight campaign; title: Moonlight schools and progressivism; title: Nationalizing the illiteracy campaign : illiteracy in a changing world; title: The national crusade against illiteracy; title: A new vision.