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Childress, Stacey M., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
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…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Social Change, Public Agencies, Educational Opportunities
Childress, Stacey M., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2010
This instructor's guide is intended for use with "Transforming Public Education: Cases in Education Entrepreneurship." This volume includes a teaching note for each case in the student edition; the note provides basic guidance in how to initaite and organize the flow of the case discussion as well as how the case links to others before…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Social Change, Public Agencies, Educational Opportunities
Childress, Stacey M.; Doyle, Denis P.; Thomas, David A. – Harvard Education Press, 2009
"Leading for Equity" tells the compelling story of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools and its transformation--in less than a decade--into a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement. In chapters organized around six core themes, the authors lay out the essential elements of MCPS's…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Counties