The Unlikely Teacher: One Woman's Fight To Fix Special Education

For readers of education memoir and supporters of disability advocacy, one teacher turned administrator‘s story of her fight to fix special education from the inside—and what happened when the system she’d dedicated her life to turned against her.

When Sally Iverson stumbled into special education after a career in fashion, she had no idea she was falling down a rabbit hole that would consume the next twenty-five years of her life. What began as survival in chaotic classrooms evolved into so...