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Boldly honest, wryly funny, and utterly open-hearted, Uneducated is one diploma-less journalist''s map of our growing educational divide and, ultimately, a challenge: in our credential-obsessed world, what is the true value of a college degree?

For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioural problems and never allowed back. From a school for troubled kids, to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New York in his thirties, Zara spent years contending with skeptical hiring managers and his own impostor syndrome before breaking into the world of journalism-only to be met by an industry preoccupied with pedigree.

As he navigated the world of the elite and saw the realities of the education gap firsthand, Zara realized he needed to con

Uneducated

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      Published 1 June 2023
      ISBN-13 9780316268974
      978-0316268974
      ISBN-10 0316268976

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Boldly honest, wryly funny, and utterly open-hearted, Uneducated is one diploma-less journalist''s map of our growing educational divide and, ultimately, a challenge: in our credential-obsessed world, what is the true value of a college degree?

      For Christopher Zara, this is the professional minefield he has had to navigate since the day he was kicked out of his New Jersey high school for behavioural problems and never allowed back. From a school for troubled kids, to wrestling with his identity in the burgeoning punk scene of the 1980s; from a stint as an ice cream scooper as he got clean in Florida, to an unpaid internship in New York in his thirties, Zara spent years contending with skeptical hiring managers and his own impostor syndrome before breaking into the world of journalism-only to be met by an industry preoccupied with pedigree.

      As he navigated the world of the elite and saw the realities of the education gap firsthand, Zara realized he needed to con

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