Abstract
Educationally, Cuba has much to celebrate. From the early 1960s, with an obligation for all to learn, its unprecedented investment in literacy and schools was extended into an ever-increasing multilevel system, reaching into the remotest corners of the nation. Over time, this has taken Cuba to the top of world rankings in several areas of human development, no matter that its economic statistics were not always deemed sufficiently robust to include it among the indicators.
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© 2012 Anne Hickling-Hudson, Jorge Corona González, and Rosemary Preston
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Preston, R. (2012). Achievements, Celebrations, and Learning. In: Hickling-Hudson, A., González, J.C., Preston, R. (eds) The Capacity to Share. Postcolonial Studies in Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137014634_20
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