Young people emerge from college with pride and with great friends and with a lot of knowledge about the world. It’s expensive it leaves young people in debt. Some of you may be in college right now and you’re feeling this excitement at this very moment.Ĭollege has some shortcomings. Some of you may remember the excitement that you felt when you first set off for college. The first is the one we hear a lot about: college. On the path that American children travel to adulthood, two institutions oversee the journey. In an impassioned talk she asks, “Why are we offering only handcuffs and jail time?”īy Alice Goffman, Urban sociologist. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison - sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions. In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison.
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