"Educated working class" is also known as the "first gen immigrant" in the States, both with and without cause. Your parents came in from non-Western-Europe (Eastern Europe, Asia, etc), and pushed you to go to college so you'd make something of yourself. And it would reinvent itself every few decades, depending on who was coming in.

Second- and third-gen was where you got the solid middle class (pre-1990's).

I think we've talked about this before - education used to be one of the major social dividers in the US (it may still be, despite shifts). Not only if you went to college but what school you went to - and once there you could reinvent yourself utterly, and that was not only accepted but expected.... so that's where a class disconnect could happen between you and your parents.