TY - JOUR PY - 2010// TI - Parents’ Roles in Mediating and Buffering the Implementation of an Urban School Reform JO - Education and urban society A1 - Martinez-Cosio, M. SP - 283 EP - 306 VL - 42 IS - 3 N2 - This article presents an analysis of a Latino parent group and an African American parent group in California who struggled to engage with a contentious urban school reform. Using Bourdieu’s cultural capital framework, the study focuses on the institutional responses to parent involvement, and the inequality in access that occurs as capital from different parent groups is validated or dismissed. Findings suggest that researchers also focus on school district responses to parents’ efforts at engagement and help highlight institutional obstacles.

LA - SN - 0013-1245 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013124509356665 ID - ref1 ER -