Educational Entrepreneurship Today
In Educational Entrepreneurship Today, Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane assemble a diverse lineup of high-profile contributors to examine the contexts in which new initiatives in education are taking shape. They inquire into the impact of entrepreneurship on the larger field—including the development and deployment of new technologies—and analyze the incentives, barriers, opportunities, and tensions that support or constrain innovation.

Over the past decade, entrepreneurship has moved from the periphery to the center of education reform. Policy measures, philanthropic support, and venture capital increasingly promote initiatives that drive innovation within and outside the traditional education sector. These initiatives have included spectacular successes, like Khan Academy, Teach For America, and Wireless Generation, as well as highly visible failures, like the InBloom data warehouse.

Educational Entrepreneurship Today offers critical perspectives on the impact of entrepreneurship and also includes lessons from leading entrepreneurs, in which they use case studies drawn from their own experience to illustrate the realities of leading disruptive change in education and pose guiding questions for the next generation of innovators.

In a time of increasing polarization around education policy, this timely, frank, and insightful volume shows how we can begin to create systems in which entrepreneurial ideas and fresh thinking are welcomed, constructively employed, and held accountable for the public good.
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Educational Entrepreneurship Today
In Educational Entrepreneurship Today, Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane assemble a diverse lineup of high-profile contributors to examine the contexts in which new initiatives in education are taking shape. They inquire into the impact of entrepreneurship on the larger field—including the development and deployment of new technologies—and analyze the incentives, barriers, opportunities, and tensions that support or constrain innovation.

Over the past decade, entrepreneurship has moved from the periphery to the center of education reform. Policy measures, philanthropic support, and venture capital increasingly promote initiatives that drive innovation within and outside the traditional education sector. These initiatives have included spectacular successes, like Khan Academy, Teach For America, and Wireless Generation, as well as highly visible failures, like the InBloom data warehouse.

Educational Entrepreneurship Today offers critical perspectives on the impact of entrepreneurship and also includes lessons from leading entrepreneurs, in which they use case studies drawn from their own experience to illustrate the realities of leading disruptive change in education and pose guiding questions for the next generation of innovators.

In a time of increasing polarization around education policy, this timely, frank, and insightful volume shows how we can begin to create systems in which entrepreneurial ideas and fresh thinking are welcomed, constructively employed, and held accountable for the public good.
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In Educational Entrepreneurship Today, Frederick M. Hess and Michael Q. McShane assemble a diverse lineup of high-profile contributors to examine the contexts in which new initiatives in education are taking shape. They inquire into the impact of entrepreneurship on the larger field—including the development and deployment of new technologies—and analyze the incentives, barriers, opportunities, and tensions that support or constrain innovation.

Over the past decade, entrepreneurship has moved from the periphery to the center of education reform. Policy measures, philanthropic support, and venture capital increasingly promote initiatives that drive innovation within and outside the traditional education sector. These initiatives have included spectacular successes, like Khan Academy, Teach For America, and Wireless Generation, as well as highly visible failures, like the InBloom data warehouse.

Educational Entrepreneurship Today offers critical perspectives on the impact of entrepreneurship and also includes lessons from leading entrepreneurs, in which they use case studies drawn from their own experience to illustrate the realities of leading disruptive change in education and pose guiding questions for the next generation of innovators.

In a time of increasing polarization around education policy, this timely, frank, and insightful volume shows how we can begin to create systems in which entrepreneurial ideas and fresh thinking are welcomed, constructively employed, and held accountable for the public good.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781612509297
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Publication date: 03/04/2021
Series: Educational Innovations Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Frederick M. Hess is director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Michael Q. McShane is director of education policy at the Show-Me Institute and an adjunct fellow in education policy studies at AEI.

Table of Contents

Introduction Frederick M. Hess Michael Q. McShane 1

1 From Generation to Generation: Fifteen Years of Education Entrepreneurship Stacey Childress 11

2 Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons: How Policy Shapes Educational Entrepreneurship Ashley Jochim 35

3 Tailwinds and Headwinds: Unleashing Entrepreneurial Energy to Transform Education John Bailey 53

4 Barbarians at the Gate?: How Venture Finance Could Support Radical K-12 Innovation Dmitri Mehlhorn 77

5 The View from Abroad: Does American Education Suffer from a Deficit of Innovation? Marc S. Tucker 95

6 But Does It Work?: Evaluating the Fruits of Entrepreneurship Jon Fullerton 105

7 A Matter of Practice: Entrepreneurship in Teaching and Learning Elizabeth City 125

8 Go Small or Go Home: Innovation in Schooling Matt Candler 143

9 Transparency, Authenticity, Civility: The Prerequisites to Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Education John Katzman Jillian Youngblood 157

10 Ten for the Next Ten: Lessons for the Next Decade Ross Baird Daniel Lautzenheiser 177

Conclusion: Entrepreneurship and American Education Frederick M. Hess Michael Q. McShane 197

Notes 209

Acknowledgements 227

About the Edition 229

About the Contributors 231

Index 237

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