The following is an examination of the essay prompt for the week-two module of Inequality and Diversity in Education. Accordingly, it presents discussion relating the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child to the multi-year observation study by author Jay MacLeod in his book, Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood. Moreover, the emphasis of this paper is to discuss the efficacy of the aforementioned documents with regards to the two peer group subjects of MacLeod’s work, the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers. First, this paper provides a brief overview of these peer groups by introducing the context of their relative situations. Secondly, this
