Revisiting College Readiness

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research in Progress Roundtable Session One
  In Roundtable Session: Research on College Readiness (Table 12)

Abstract

College readiness has historically been poorly defined and articulated differently across states and among researchers (Majors, 2019), which has significant consequences of students of color who are often deemed less "college ready" than their white peers. This literature review interrogates what it means for Mexican American students to be college ready. I find that the research literature defines college readiness around both academic assessments and measures of social and cultural capital, and studies of Mexican American student college readiness primarily ascribes racialized outcomes to a lack of capital or a failure to utilize alternative forms of social and cultural capital. I argue that this literature misses the opportunity to critique the white-centric construction of merit in college readiness definitions.

Author

• Lauren M. Shook, University of Texas at Austin
  Presenting Author