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A visionary leader's powerful personal story and a blueprint for change that will inspire schools and communities across AmericaLuma Mufleh - a Muslim woman, a gay refugee from hyper-conservative Jordan - joins a pick-up game of soccer in Clarkston, Georgia.The players, 11- and 12-year-olds from Liberia and Afghanistan and Sudan, have attended local schools for years.Drawn in as coach of a ragtag but fiercely competitive team, Mufleh discovers that few of her players can read a word. She asks, "Where was the America that took me in That protected me How can I get these kids tothatAmerica" For readers of Malala, Paul Tough, and Bryan Stevenson, Learning America is the moving and insight-packed story of how Luma Mufleh grew a soccer team into a nationally acclaimed network of schools - by homing in laserlike on what traumatized students need in order to learn.