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Tables of Contents for The Ambitious Generation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Ambitious Adolescents
1
14
Part I Voices from the 1950s and the 1990s
Imagining the Future
15
41
Trying to Make It with a High School Diploma
56
23
The Importance of Aligned Ambitions
79
34
Part II The Formation of Aligned Ambitions
Channeling Ambitions in High School
113
28
Families and the Shaping of Aligned Ambitions
141
29
Teenage Work and Internships
170
19
Being Alone and Being with Friends
189
26
Part III Defining a Pathway
The Ambition Paradox
215
30
Supporting the Development of Aligned Ambitions
245
20
Appendix A The Alfred P. Sloan Study of Youth and Social Development
265
4
Appendix B Logistic Regression Models
269
8
Notes
277
32
Index
309