From Fall 2019 through Spring 2020, The Hunt Institute released a series of policy briefs, "Attainment for All: Postsecondary Pathways," that highlighted scalable state-level strategies to boost postsecondary attainment rates among specific student subpopulations including high school graduates, first-generation students, and adult learners. Building upon the momentum of this series, the higher education team at The Hunt Institute has authored a follow-up series of briefs that further explore the intersection between equity and efforts to raise postsecondary attainment rates. This brief is the first of the three-part "Attainment for All: Postsecondary Pathways" follow-up series. This brief explores the idea of embedding equity across the education continuum to boost postsecondary attainment, identifies barriers to achieving equity, and includes examples of states' work to ensure equity across the education continuum. [For the second brief, see ED599442. For the third brief, see ED599443.]