Drawing on personal correspondence, conference proceedings, textbooks, and speeches, NeCamp demonstrates how the Moonlight Schools and the Americanization movem

The release of U.S. census data in 1910 sparked rhetoric declaring the nation had a literacy crisis and proclaiming illiterate citizens a threat to democratic l

This pioneering study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues lin

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