Maestros Voluntarios. Celebrating 61 Years of Cuba's National Literacy Program

Episode Title: Maestros Voluntarios: Celebrating 61 Years of
Cuba’s National Literacy Program.


On Friday, April 22 Cuba celebrated the 61st anniversary of the
very first youth brigades sent to the Cuba countryside to teach
reading and writing to the predominantly illiterate rural
population. This is a highly successful post-revolution
project that has been emulated across the world.


Joining us to celebrate, and further discuss, the Cuba Literacy
campaign is Catherine Murphy, director of the film Maestra and
Nancy Wright a 12 veteran of public education in the DC
metropolitan area. Nancy is also a member of Friends of Latin
America, a broadcast partner of this program.


We begin program with Catherine providing a brief background of
Cuba’s literacy campaign. Then we share with you a short
video of a conversation between two former brigadiers. Nancy
provides us with the realities of public education in the United
States and how that reality compares with the success of the
Cuban model.





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