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Gast, Melanie Jones – Sociology of Education, 2022
Past work and college-access programs often treat college knowledge as discrete pieces of information and focus on the amount of available college information. I use ethnographic and multiwave interview data to compare college-aspiring working- and middle-class black 9th and 11th graders across almost two years in high school along with their…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Academic Aspiration, Middle Class, African Americans
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Nielsen, Kelly – Sociology of Education, 2015
Sociologists of education have explored the relationship between students' postsecondary aspirations and their propensity to get "cooled out" in community colleges. However, researchers have directed little attention to students whose aspirations remain stable over long periods of time or to the different roles that college degree goals…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Academic Aspiration, Postsecondary Education