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Just 11 percent of low-income and first-generation students go on to complete college within six years of leaving high school. In a new documentary, Richard Whitmire talks about the themes of his new book, 鈥淭he B.A. Breakthrough,鈥� which argues that reversing these kinds of diploma disparities could be the advent of 鈥渢he most effective anti-poverty program ever launched in this country,鈥� and celebrates places across the country where this breakthrough is already happening 鈥� from innovative K-12 schools, many of them public charters, to elite colleges like UCLA, to creative nonprofits like the College Advising Corps.

Here, Martin Kurzweil, director of Ithaca S+R鈥檚 Educational Transformation Program, discusses the role philanthropy and foundations play in improving outcomes for low-income and first-generation students.

鈥� Edited by Jim Fields; Produced by Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao