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Transforming Public Education features nineteen cases that profile entrepreneurs who are pursuing opportunities to create pattern-breaking social change in our public schools.

For nearly two decades, education entrepreneurs have been working to transform the K-12 public education system in the United States. "Social entrepreneurship" has become part of the language of a new generation of idealists, many of whom are focused on education. The nineteen cases in this book profile entrepreneurs who are pursuing opportunities to create pattern-breaking social change in our public schools--in particular, by creating high-quality educational opportunities for low-income and minority students who are dramatically underserved by the current public education system.

Based on a popular course developed and taught at the Harvard Business School, this casebook is organized into four modules:

  • Understanding the Context of Urban Schooling in the United States
  • Tackling the "People Problem"
  • Focusing on Performance
  • Launching and Growing New Schools
Students are invited to explore four overarching questions:
  • Why are there opportunities for entrepreneurs in a sector that is funded with public dollars and delivered by public agencies?
  • Why is entrepreneurial activity aggregating around certain opportunities?
  • What are the possibilities and constraints faced by entrepreneurs in each opportunity area?
  • How can we evaluate the impact of these entrepreneurs' efforts?

About the Author:

Stacey M. Childress is a senior lecturer in the General Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and a cofounder of the Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard University. She studies entrepreneurial activity in public education in the United States. This includes the behavior and strategies of leadership teams in urban public school districts, charter schools, and nonprofit and for-profit enterprises with missions to improve the public system. Childress is also interested more generally in a range of social enterprise topics, including international social entrepreneurship.

She has authored more than two dozen case studies about large urban districts and entrepreneurial education ventures. Stacey is also a coauthor of Leading for Equity: The Pursuit of Excellence in Montgomery County Public Schools, Harvard Education Press, 2009, and a coeditor of Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership, Harvard Education Press, 2007.

Childress teaches in Harvard Business School's MBA program, where she has won the Student Association teaching award from the students in her Entrepreneurship in Education course. In 2008, she was an inaugural recipient of the Charles M. Williams Award for excellence in teaching, named in honor of one of the School's most celebrated case method teachers.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781934742426
  • Publisher: Harvard Educational Publishing Group
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 496
  • Spine Width: 0 mm
  • Weight: 956 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1934742422
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2010
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Cases in Education Entrepreneurship
  • Width: 187 mm


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