At 15, Dreaming Big Dreams: Oh, to Be a Scholar. Tim Weiner.
by Weiner, Tim; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 34Family. Publisher: New York Times, 2005ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): College attendance | Education -- Mexico | Mexico -- Economic conditions | Youth -- MexicoDDC classification: 050 Summary: "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."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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."
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