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Search - Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood
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Ain't No Makin' It Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood Author: ?I ain?t goin? to college. Who wants to go to college? I?d just end up gettin? a shitty job anyway.? So said Freddie Piniella, an eleven-year-old boy from Clarendon Heights low-income housing project, to Jay MacLeod, his counselor in a youth program. MacLeod was struck by the seeming self-defeatism of Freddie and his friends. How is it that in A... more »
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Genres:
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> Urban
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> General