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Table of Contents for Educational Entrepreneurship
AcknowledgmentsINTRODUCTION
Entrepreneurship, Risk and Reinvention
Frederick M. Hess
CHAPTER 1
What Is Educational Entrepreneurship?
Kim Smith and Julie Landry Petersen
CHAPTER 2
Entrepreneurs at Work
Paul Teske and Aimee Williamson
CHAPTER 3
The Policy Landscape
Patrick McGuinn
CHAPTER 4
Mapping the K–12 and Postsecondary Sectors
Adam Newman
CHAPTER 5
For-Profit K–12 Education: Through the Glass Darkly
Alex Molnar
CHAPTER 6
Entrepreneurs within School Districts
Joe Williams
CHAPTER 7
Markets, Bureaucracies, and Clans: The Role of Organizational Culture
Robert Maranto and April Gresham Maranto
CHAPTER 8
Why Is This So Difficult?
Henry M. Levin
CHAPTER 9
Opportunities, but a Resistant Culture
Steven F. Wilson
CHAPTER 10
The Bias against Scale and Profit
John E. Chubb
CHAPTER 11
Educational Entrepreneurs Redux
Larry Cuban
CHAPTER 12
Politics, Policy, and the Promise of Entrepreneurship
Frederick M. Hess
Notes
About the Contributors
Index
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