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Article: The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship.
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- September 1, 2009
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The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship edited by Frederick M. Hess, Harvard Education Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2008, 292 pp. with index, $54.95 hardcover, $29.95 softcover
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This book opens the curtain on what some serious reform-minded entrepreneurs and scholars envision. As editor of The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship: Possibilities for School Reform, Frederick Hess, director of educational policy for the American Enterprise Institute, tells us the school environment is "characterized by insufficient quality-control mechanisms, a lack of transparency, a scarcity of human or investment capital and harmful regulatory and ...