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Revolutionary education: Cuban Americans' perceptions of literacy education
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Revolutionary education: Cuban Americans' perceptions of literacy education
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Heather
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1984
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ALAN R
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Sabrina M
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Susan F
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - Newark
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This dissertation investigated the effectiveness of literacy education in the post-revolution Cuban Education System, and in particular, how Cuba has maintained exceptional literacy rates since 1961. These results are surprising because for many years Cuba had maintained literacy rates despite the obstacle of abject poverty. Previous research has shown that low levels of literacy are correlated with low socioeconomic status (Berliner, 2013; Fernald, Marchman, & Weisleder, 2013; Green, 1997; Lareau, 2003; and Ripley, 2013). Cuba’s literacy rates from 1961 to present have surpassed those of the world’s most powerful countries, including the United States. This dissertation was motivated by three goals: (1) to understand the role of each player in the multi-level Cuban education system which oversees successful literacy; (2) to understand the goals and functions of Cuban literacy education; and (3) to understand what (if any) best practices can be applied to the United States educational system. This results of this study showed that although Cuba did maintain a successful program for many years after the Cuban Revolution, the participants of this study detailed an education system that was crumbling as they were students and have since worsened.
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Urban Systems
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Literacy -- Cuba
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ETD doctoral
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Heather
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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