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Shoffner, S. M.; Kenkel, W. F. – 1986
This study reports on career and status aspirations of over a thousand children from low income areas in the South and is a follow-up study to a 1969 baseline study involving 1,503 fifth- and sixth-graders and their mothers in three low-income subcultures--rural white Appalachians, rural blacks, and inner-city urban blacks. In 1979, a total of 544…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Access to Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attainment