Jeanne Allen and NR go way back. A valued friend of this institution (she’s written numerous times here), she hosted its pre-Covid education podcast, Reality Check, and even toiled on the precursor to NRO. Nice, no?
Sure it is. But more importantly — much more importantly — for three decades Jeanne has been the very valued friend of America’s held-hostage schoolkids, to whose defense she comes, once again, in a new and inspiring book, The Education Avengers: How and Why a New Class of Heroes Is Fighting America’s Biggest Battle.
Through her years — seen it all, heard it all, done it all, and has the scars to prove it — of focused work and leadership at the Center for Education Reform, conducted on the nasty front lines of the fight to gain children and families an alternative to the abysmally performing public-school monopoly (her term: the “Hydra”), Jeanne knows intimately that many of the people making a substantive difference — for actual reform and choice — are akin to superheroes. Hence her book’s smart, dead-on title and positioning.