Brady Smith grew up in Seattle and spent his early adulthood “playing music and pounding nails” — not exactly the one you’d have imagined leading a second-chance high school for New York City youth. But it turns out that Brady has a lot in common with the students he now serves.

Miseducation is a podcast of The Bell that equips New York City public high school students with the tools to report on inequities in the nation’s largest school system.