Keywords: parent involvement; college access; secondary education; high school; Latino education; educational equity
01 How do marginalized parents construct their role in promoting their children’s access to educational opportunity, specifically college? This question is important in light of persistent patterns of under representation of students of color in 4-year colleges, the well-documented influence of parents on students’ aspirations and college pursuit, and calls for greater parent involvement in schooling. Indeed, parent roles can profoundly affect the extent to which low socioeconomic status (SES) students experience “conflict and challenge” on the pathway to college