Nadia Lopez is the founding principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy, where she is showing the world how underprivileged communities can beat the odds and create positive institutions that have a global impact.

Through blended courses Anant Agarwal is pairing online education with face-to-face student-faculty interactions, reshaping the university campus experience.

Stuart Firestein teaches students and “citizen scientists” that ignorance is far more important to discovery than knowledge.

Rita F. Pierson spent her entire life in or around the classroom, having followed both her parents and grandparents into a career as an educator.

Kandice Sumner thinks we've been looking at the "achievement gap" in education all wrong.

Diane Wolk-Rogers has been a Florida public school teacher for more than three decades.

Tyler DeWitt recognizes that textbooks are not the way to get young people interested in science. Instead, he teaches science by making it fun and fantastical.

As a high school chemistry teacher, Ramsey Musallam expands curiosity in the classroom through multimedia and new technology.

Inspired by Mister Rogers, Sara DeWitt strives to make every child feel special by charting the forefront of new digital mediums where kids spend their time.

Ayah Bdeir is an engineer and artist, and is the founder of littleBits and karaj, an experimental art, architecture and technology lab in Beirut.

Pearl Arredondo helped establish a pilot middle school that teaches students to be good communicators in the 21st century.

Ben Ambridge is the author of "Psy-Q," a sparkling book debunking what we think we know about psychology.