Wide Response to Educational Plight of Mexican Immigrants

nytimes.com
By Kirk Semple
Nov. 29, 2011, 8:30 a.m.

A freelance marketing specialist sent an e-mail. So did a professor in Dallas. There were others from lawyers, bankers, students and teachers. Most of the writers were Mexican-American. All wanted to help.

Angelo Cabrera, head of a small nonprofit organization in the Bronx that tutors Mexican and Mexican-American children, has been fielding scores of such e-mails and calls since The New York Times published an article on Friday about low rates of educational achievement among Mexican immigrants in New York City.

“People got touched by the story,â€