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The Effect of Neighborhood Context on the College Aspirations of African American Adolescents
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Stewart, Endya B.; Stewart, Eric A.; Simons, Ronald L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2007
Previous research on educational aspirations has focused almost exclusively on micro-level predictors of educational aspirations. Notably absent from these studies are measures reflecting the neighborhood context in which adolescents live. Drawing on Wilson's theory of neighborhood effects, the present study examines the extent to which…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, African American Students