The Education Avengers: How and Why a New Class of Heroes Is Fighting America's Biggest Battle

A powerful, deeply human portrait of the parents, educators, and innovators who are defying the odds-and the system-to give America's children a real future.

Twelve extraordinary people. Twelve completely different origin stories. One unifying outcome.

Some were teachers. Some were entrepreneurs. Some were pastors, parents, innovators, business leaders, or unlikely reformers. None set out to become heroes.

Yet each confronted a problem that others accepted as inevitable-and chose to do somet...