In school for the first time, teenage immigrants struggle
By Jennifer Medina, The New York Times, January 24, 2009
Fanta Konneh is the first girl in her family to go to school. Not the first to go to college, or to graduate from high school. Fanta, 18, who grew up in Guinea after her family fled Liberia, became the first to walk into a classroom of any kind last year.
