Peg Tyre is vice president of strategy, communications and network engagement at the EGF Accelerator in New York City, which supports social entrepreneurs looking to improve college graduate rates for low-income students. A veteran journalist and author, Tyre has written about education for Newsweek, The New York Times, Politico, Bright, the Christian Science Monitor, Time, and The Atlantic. She has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award is and is the author of two critically acclaimed books on education, The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School and What Parents & Educators Must Do, which was a New York Times bestseller, and The Good School: How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve. She has a bachelor’s from Brown University and was a Spencer fellow at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Peg Tyre
