Argentina’s Creative Work to Get Kids Back in Class

This article is adapted from AQ’s special report on the education crisis | Leer en español BUENOS AIRES — Three days a week, Alejo Aracena drifts through the 19th-century doors of Casa Mercado, one of the oldest buildings in the municipality of San Martín, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. With a shock of bleached blonde hair and a slight stoop to his walk, the teenager has a destination: past the leafy pergola, toward the end of the build­ing’s interior courtyard, where a few plastic ta­bles are tucked next to a big blue sign that reads Educación. Aracena, 14,...

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