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Article: The case for educational entrepreneurship: hard truths about risk, reform, and reinvention.
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- Phi Delta Kappan
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Entrepreneurial ventures always carry the risk of failure. But Mr. Hess believes that our education system is far more endangered by conventional approaches to school reform that have merely preserved the status quo.
TO AN unprecedented degree, this is the era of educational entrepreneurship. Unconventional thinkers have waded into the world of K-12 education, founded influential organizations, and upended conventions. They have developed new models for delivering instruction or recruiting teachers and have applied old-fashioned practices with inspired fidelity. While their efforts constitute a still-minuscule portion of schooling, they are responsible for many ...