Word: barrio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MESA students in the classes of Jaime Escalante know that one teacher rather than grand programs can make the biggest difference. Escalante, 51, a Bolivian immigrant who arrived in the U.S. speaking no English, is chairman of the math department at Garfield High School in the east Los Angeles barrio. With his support, 18 students decided to take the advanced placement calculus test, given to only 2.7% of college-bound seniors by the Educational Testing Service. Drilling them two hours a day after school and assigning four hours' worth of problems for every Saturday, Escalante mounted a 35-week...
...bedroom was to have less bearing on subsequent events than what had gone before. Bonnie, an affectionate, vivacious woman with a mane of red hair and a fine soprano voice, came from a well-to-do suburban family. Richard, an illegitimate child, was a product of the Los Angeles barrio. The lovers met at Yale, of which Bonnie's father was a prominent alumnus; she was a freshman and Richard was a senior. Despite the differences in their interests and background, and opposition from her parents, the romance lasted 2½ years before Bonnie wanted...
...unfairness of academic affirmative-action policies based solely on race, he turned down all the professorships offered and became a writer. Rodriguez realized that "the policy of affirmative action was never able to distinguish someone like me from a slightly educated Mexican American who lived in a barrio. Worse, affirmative action made me the beneficiary of his condition." Today, he believes, colleges do nonwhite students a disservice by recruiting them without due regard for their preparation or chances to succeed. "The revolutionary demand," Rodriguez writes, would be for "a reform of primary and secondary schools...
...barrio on the northern outskirts of San Salvador, a community of muddy streets, tin-roofed houses and open cooking fires, the people recall how the army swept through last month, apparently on a hunt for left-wingers. When the troops left, at least 19 people were dead. "You heard the trucks pull up," said a stout woman frying vegetables in a pan over a wood stove. "The dogs started to bark. The soldiers came marching fast down the streets. They banged on doors, and they dragged people out." It is a litany that could also describe the raids of many...
...zealously ambitious Koreans who run New York City's best vegetable markets, or boat people trying to open a restaurant, or chicanes who struggle to start a small business in the barrio are still years away from est and the Sierra Club...