Weiner, Tim, <br/><br/>
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; .
<br/><br/> Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.  Originally Published: At 15, Dreaming Big Dreams: Oh, to Be a Scholar, April 9, 2005; pp. A4. 
<br/><br/> "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." 
<br/><br/><label>ISSN: </label>1522-3213; 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>College attendance<br/>Education--Mexico<br/>Youth--Mexico
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Mexico--Economic conditions
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>AC1.S5 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>050