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Product Description: Could a man who never earned a master's degree tell the nation's teachers and administrators how to run their schools? Jesse Stuart, who had a life-long love of education, did just that.From Stuart's autobiographical works, J .R. LeMaster has chosen selections that demonstrate his philosophy of learning and teaching, and his philosophy of life...read more
Hardcover:
9780813117652 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, January 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Could a man who never earned a master's degree tell the nation's teachers and administrators how to run their schools?
Paperback:
9780813156088 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, July 7, 2014), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Could a man who never earned a master's degree tell the nation's teachers and administrators how to run their schools?
Hardcover:
9781931672429, titled "The Thread That Runs So True: A Novel" | Jesse Stuart Foundation, October 1, 2006, cover price $25.00
Product Description: The first woman elected superintendent of schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, Cora Wilson Stewart (1875â1958) 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...read more
Hardcover:
9780813123783 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, March 3, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The first woman elected superintendent of schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, Cora Wilson Stewart (1875â1958) realized that a major key to overcoming the illiteracy that plagued her community was to educate adult illiterates.
Paperback:
9780786414901 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 1, 2003, cover price $45.00
Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Paperback:
9780786403349 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, August 1, 1997, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In 1911 Cora Wilson Stewart founded the Moonlight Schools in Rowan County, Kentucky, an innovative night program that taught illiterate adults to read.
Product Description: Beyond Dark Hills was originally written by Jesse Stuart as a graduate school assignment at Vanderbilt University. Assigned to write an 18 page personal narrative, he turned in 322 pages about a seemingly simple farm boy and his family...read more
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9780945084532 | Jesse Stuart Foundation, September 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Beyond Dark Hills was originally written by Jesse Stuart as a graduate school assignment at Vanderbilt University.
9781931672900 | Jesse Stuart Foundation, September 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: More than eighty years ago, a young man from Kentucky borrowed $150, gathered up his Oliver typewriter, a trunk short on clothes and long on manuscript pages, and headed for Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, to pursue a master s degree.
Hardcover:
9780945084501 | Jesse Stuart Foundation, July 1, 1995, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This is a memoir of oneroom school life in 1929, detailing the first teaching experience of Cratis D.
Product Description: Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd was a New England woman with a mission in life. In 1916 she settled on Caney Creek in Eastern Kentucky, determined to bring higher education to this remote corner of Appalachia. The school she founded, now Alice Lloyd College, continues to serve the area and its people and to stand as a tribute to Lloyd's remarkable energy, determination, and vision...read more
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9780813118833 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, February 23, 1995, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd was a New England woman with a mission in life.
Product Description: Stuart's autobiographical account of much of his educational career. This great Kentucky novelist, short story writer, poet, and teacher writes about his boyhood, his elementary school and high school experiences, and his days at Lincoln Memorial University...read more
Hardcover:
9780690003680 | Reissue edition (Jesse Stuart Foundation, December 1, 1988), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Stuart's autobiographical account of much of his educational career.
9780945084020, titled "To Teach to Love" | Jesse Stuart Foundation, November 1, 1987, cover price $22.00
Paperback:
9780890970263 | Archer Editions Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $9.95
Hardcover:
9780813113203 | New edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, October 1, 1974), cover price $8.50 | About this edition: First published in 1949, Jesse Stuartâs now classic personal account of his twenty years of teaching in the mountain region of Kentucky has enchanted and inspired generations of students and teachers.
9780684151601, titled "Thread That Runs So True" | Macmillan Pub Co, June 1, 1958, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: True account of the experiences of a backwoods school teacher
Paperback:
9780684719047 | Touchstone Books, June 1, 1970, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Presents a true account of the experiences of a backwoods school teacher.
Reinforced:
9780606014663 | Demco Media, June 1, 1970, cover price $23.50 | also contains The Thread That Runs So True | About this edition: True account of the experiences of a backwoods school teacher
Prebinding:
9780685540930 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Presents a true account of the experiences of a backwoods school teacher.
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