The Arthurdale Community School: Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia by Stack, Sam F.

The Arthurdale Community School: Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813166889)

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The Arthurdale Community School: Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia by Stack, Sam F.

The Arthurdale Community School: Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia

$60.00
The Arthurdale Community School: Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia by Stack, Sam F.

The Arthurdale Community School: Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia

$60.00
Format: Hardcover
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The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning. At the center of the settlement was the school, which was established to improve the curriculum offered to Appalachian students. Offering displaced and unemployed coal miners and their families new opportunities, the school also helped those in need to develop a sense of dignity during the Great Depression. The first book-length st

Author: Sam F. Stack
ISBN-10: 0813166888
ISBN-13: 9780813166889
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 04/08/2016
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.80d

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Choice 10/01/2016
By Sam F. Stack
By Sam F. Stack
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Sam F. Stack Jr. is professor of social and cultural foundations at West Virginia University. He is the author of Elsie Ripley Clapp (1879--1965): Her Life and the Community School and coauthor of Teachers, Leaders, and Schools: Essays by John Dewey, which won the 2012 American Educational Studies Critics Choice Award.

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