The National Education Equity Lab Is Closing The College Opportunity Gap

The National Education Equity Lab, a New York-based nonprofit, is partnering with many of our nation’s top colleges, including Princeton, Howard, Wharton, Arizona State University and Stanford, to turn low-income high-school students on to the possibility of succeeding in college, and in the process, it’s showing how the college pipeline can be stocked with talented students who would never have had the chance to demonstrate that talent but for the unique opportunity extended by the Ed Equity Lab.

The Ed Equity Lab’s ultimate mission is economic mobility, leveraging the power of “mobility engine colleges” to achieve a college-going culture in students at high schools in some of the poorest areas of the country. It was founded in 2019 by Leslie Cornfeld, a former federal civil rights prosecutor and later an advisor to both New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and two U.S. Secretaries of Education.

Published by Michael T. Nietzel in Forbes.