Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Expanded Edition by Jay MacLeod

Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, Expanded Edition

Jay MacLeod

336 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction education sociology informative reflective slow-paced

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“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 progr...

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