Weiner, Tim,
At 15, Dreaming Big Dreams: Oh, to Be a Scholar. Tim Weiner. - New York Times, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 34, Family, 1522-3213; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: At 15, Dreaming Big Dreams: Oh, to Be a Scholar, April 9, 2005; pp. A4.
"Alicia Alvarez lives two miles from the American border and light-years from the American dream. Growing up in Mexicali has made her a realist at 15. She has no taste for romances and soap operas. Harry Potter stories and a horror movie at the mall are as far away as fictions take her from her city's heat and dust. Alicia has a fierce intelligence, and it fires her only soaring ambition: to get a decent education, schooling that could lift her up and out of her surroundings into a better life. It looks to her as likely as a trip to Mars." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article reveals what life is like for a young Mexican girl hungry for education in a country where "only one of seven children entering first grade finishes high school."
1522-3213;
College attendance
Education--Mexico
Youth--Mexico
Mexico--Economic conditions
AC1.S5
050
At 15, Dreaming Big Dreams: Oh, to Be a Scholar. Tim Weiner. - New York Times, 2005. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 34, Family, 1522-3213; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: At 15, Dreaming Big Dreams: Oh, to Be a Scholar, April 9, 2005; pp. A4.
"Alicia Alvarez lives two miles from the American border and light-years from the American dream. Growing up in Mexicali has made her a realist at 15. She has no taste for romances and soap operas. Harry Potter stories and a horror movie at the mall are as far away as fictions take her from her city's heat and dust. Alicia has a fierce intelligence, and it fires her only soaring ambition: to get a decent education, schooling that could lift her up and out of her surroundings into a better life. It looks to her as likely as a trip to Mars." (NEW YORK TIMES) This article reveals what life is like for a young Mexican girl hungry for education in a country where "only one of seven children entering first grade finishes high school."
1522-3213;
College attendance
Education--Mexico
Youth--Mexico
Mexico--Economic conditions
AC1.S5
050