In 1961, Cuba instituted a National Literacy Campaign that resulted in student teachers from urban areas training and teaching rural families how to read and write. This resulted in a literacy rate of approximately 96% (up from ~76%), which has since increased to 99.7%. This is the highest literacy rate in the Americas and Caribbean.
Since the revolution, Cubans have understood literacy, like education, as a human right. Despite the negative effects of the U.S.’s blockade–which prevents everything from children’s educational toys to textbooks from reaching the island–Cuba’s children receive a free education from preschool through graduate school, including specialized education in medicine, engineering, technology, and other fields. And because of its dedication to literacy and education as a whole, Cuba is known worldwide to have some of the best medical programs and educate some of the best doctors.
Read more here: https://litwinbooks.com/rebel-literacy-cubas-national-literacy-campaign-and-critical-global-citizenship/ or https://www.zinnedproject.org/materials/maestra-teacher/
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