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Frederick M. Hess
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What if it’s the system that’s the problem? What if the key to breakthrough school improvement is not mandating new solutions built on an elusive combination of the right standards, pedagogy, and assessments but removing entrenched bureaucratic barriers and rethinking restrictive norms and routines? What if we were free to start from scratch?
This is the greenfield reform strategy: Create an environment that invites new solutions to surface and provide the infrastructure necessary for them to succeed.
In Education Unbound: The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling, Frederick M. Hess advocates for an entrepreneurial approach focused on supporting outstanding teaching and learning.
Sharing the examples of organizations whose bold alternative strategies represent promising shifts in K–12 education, Hess builds a case for
The goal, Hess argues, ought not to be the creation of a new “best” system but schools capable of evolving with the students and society they serve.
Education Unbound is a catalyst for conversation and change and a must-read for practitioners, policymakers, would-be education entrepreneurs, and anyone committed to school excellence and the next steps in education reform.
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Product No: 109040
ISBN-13: 978-1-4166-0913-1
Availability: February 2010
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FREDERICK M. HESS is director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. A nationally recognized author and commentator on schooling, his books include Educational Entrepreneurship (Harvard Education Press, 2006), Common Sense School Reform (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), and Spinning Wheels (Brookings Institution, 1998).
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district leadership | school-based management
educational policy | entrepreneurial schooling | school business relationship | school government relationship | school reform models
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