The more academically rigorous courses in any high school tend to be composed of few, if any, students from Black and/or low-income households.
Reid Saaris noticed this when he was a high school student, and he noticed it even more when he became a teacher. So he set up a national nonprofit, , to challenge the status quo and make good educations available to more people.
He details his observations and responses in a book, . We spend some time with the author hearing about what it takes to get from where we are to where we'd like to be.