Children of the revolution : a Yankee teacher in the Cuban schools / Jonathan Kozol.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-232)

Preface by Paulo Freire -- Part one Cuba 1961: the great campaign (a nation learns to read and write) -- Part two The battle for the sixth grade (for Cuban adults, the follow-up goes on) -- Part three A long day's journey (a conversation with the man who runs the Cuban schools) -- Part four On my own (A Yankee teacher in the Cuban schools) -- Epilogue -- Appendices Records and documents of the literacy campaign -- Historical timeline--

"Here is the moving account of how a nation learned to read and write: the human adventure of how one hundred thousand school-children, teenage and younger, set out to some of the most remote regions of the country, armed with a primer, a lantern for study light, a hammock in which to sleep, and lots of enthusiasm. They went prepared to join in the labors of farm and home, determined to bring an education to one million neglected adults. "Children of the Revolution gives us not only the story of the Great Campaign of 1961 -- told to Jonathan Kozol by those who were part of it -- but of the educational revolution that followed it: the follow-up to raise the level of education for the once-untaught adults; the Cuban school system today with instruction both in the classroom and in the fields and factories." - from the book jacket

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