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Maestra (2012)
Maestra Yes!
20 January 2014
Maestra is a touching, incisive and true-to-history account of the 1961 literacy campaign that occurred throughout Cuba and was responsible for bringing the literacy rate among the inhabitants of this island nation from about 70% to 96% in under one year, a feat led by intrepid young women that has not been replicated in any other country. Having been to Cuba three times as a leader of professional educators tours and having visited the Havana museum dedicated to the literacy campaign, I can vouch for the authenticity and generous spirit that permeates Catherine Murphy's Maestra. A must buy for teachers of education and history, and for that matter, for anyone interested in the role women have played in transforming our world.
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