What Innovators Can, and Cannot, Do: Squeezing into Local Markets and Cutting Deals

Autor/inn/en	Hess, Frederick M.; Finn, Chester E., Jr.
Titel	What Innovators Can, and Cannot, Do: Squeezing into Local Markets and Cutting Deals
Quelle	In: Education Next, 7 (2007) 2, S.48-56 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Elementary Secondary Education; Change Agents; Educational Change; Entrepreneurship; Public Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Unternehmungsgeist; Öffentliche Erziehung
Abstract	Over the past two decades, many efforts to infuse K-12 education with innovation and enterprise have flamed out or settled into cozy symbiosis with the status quo. Today, an unprecedented (if still small) number of entrepreneurial efforts are taking root in the rocky soil of elementary and secondary education. Those who crack the constraints of the hidebound system--well-known names like the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) and Teach For America (TFA) and a handful of others--have become educational celebrities. And rightfully so. Their handiwork may be the best chance to provide U.S. children with a world-class education in the 21st century. They are deserving of both admiration and thanks. However, as with so much of celebrity culture, there are traps for the unwary. In this article, after making clear why successful education entrepreneurship is so hard, the authors explain why those who clear the many hurdles are not likely--and ought not be expected--to crusade as well for sweeping policy reforms. Obviously, many entrepreneurs have no desire to produce systemic change--charter operators who wish only to operate a few good schools, virtual-school companies pursuing simply a reasonable profit, or alternative hiring ventures that seek only to bring more talent into the nation's classrooms. It is the few "change agent" entrepreneurs who are seeking to recast schooling. The authors' focus is on just this subset of entrepreneurs who seek to transform core features of K-12 education, such as who teaches, how schools are designed, and who operates them. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10