Author: National Education Association of the United States. MeetingPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Addresses and Proceedings of the Sixty-second Annual Meeting Held at Washington, July 1924
Author: National Education Association of the United States. MeetingPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Journal of Education
Author: Addresses and Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting
Author: National Education Association of the United States. MeetingPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
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The American City
Author: Arthur Hastings GrantPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 890
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International Labour Review
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Category : Labor laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 996
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Drugs, Law Enforcement, and Foreign Policy: Panama
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International CommunicationsPublisher:
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Category : Cartels
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Journal of the National Education Association
Author: The Journal of the National Education Association
Author: National Education Association of the United StatesPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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Cora Wilson Stewart
Author: Willie NelmsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786403349
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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In 1911 Cora Wilson Stewart founded the Moonlight Schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, an innovative night program that taught illiterate adults to read. Hoping that 150 people would attend the first classes, Stewart was amazed that over 1,200 men and women enrolled. She quickly developed reading material for these men and women that appealed to them instead of the children's texts that most educators were using with adults. With the success of the Moonlight Schools, Stewart moved forward in her crusade against illiteracy; she quickly became the most prominent advocate for the cause on both the national and international scene. Stewart took the fight against illiteracy at a time when it was an accepted part of American life. She shocked the nation when she pointed out that 25 percent of the men who signed up for the draft in 1917 could neither read nor write. From her beginnings in the mountains of Kentucky, she went on to chair the Illiteracy Section of the World Conference of Education Associations five times; she founded the National Illiteracy Crusade in 1926. She even received one vote for president at the 1920 Democratic convention. Her crusade came despite the fact she was a victim of domestic abuse who suffered through three failed marriages. Her life reflects the challenges faced by female reformers in the early part of the 20th century.
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