Episode 5:
Forgotten children: Factors that affect college success

This episode highlights the work that social entrepreneur Alex Bernadotte is doing through her organization, Beyond 12, and gets to the heart of social mobility and financial opportunity. Beyond 12 creates a powerful feedback loop between K-12 schools and post-secondary institutions so that high schools can better match their priorities and teaching practices to the skills students need to succeed in college and beyond, influencing the national conversation about educational equity and student success.

“It is possible to look at a child in this country and predict with alarming accuracy where that child will end up in terms of their educational and economic outcomes based solely on their race, their ZIP code, and their parent’s level of education,” says Bernadotte.