This executive summary of a 28-page EdSource report highlights three powerful levers that state policymakers and local schools can use to strengthen high school curriculum. These levers are: (1) California's Academic Content Standards; (2) Eligibility to Attend the State's Public Universities, and (3) Career and Technical Education. It also discusses a "multiple pathways" approach to better prepare all students for college and career. This approach rejects the historic division of the high school curriculum into two tracks, one for college-bound students and another focused on career preparation. Instead, advocates for this approach suggest that high school curricula can be made to be engaging and rigorous such that they prepare students for postsecondary education and for a career after high school.