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Has Business Been Bold Enough?

Has Business Been Bold Enough?. Frederick M. Hess American Enterprise Institute www.aei.org/hess. What Business Has Done: The Clark Kent Approach. Encouragement and support Genteel philanthropy Tutoring Student scholarships Mild policy advocacy. Comparatively, We Spend a Lot.

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Has Business Been Bold Enough?

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  1. Has Business Been Bold Enough? Frederick M. Hess American Enterprise Institute www.aei.org/hess

  2. What Business Has Done: The Clark Kent Approach • Encouragement and support • Genteel philanthropy • Tutoring • Student scholarships • Mild policy advocacy

  3. Comparatively, We Spend a Lot Source: OECD 2005

  4. Even More Than You May Think (Source: Howell & West in Education Next, 2008)

  5. More Teachers, Smaller Classes (Source: Loeb & Reininger, 2004 and NCES)

  6. Teachers Are Relatively Well-Paid (Source: Podgursky in Education Next, 2003)

  7. With Factory-Style Benefits (Source: Vigdor In Education Next, 2008)

  8. Great Teachers Are Hard to Predict (Source: Goldhaber in Education Next, 2002)

  9. Tests Can Be Misleading (Source: Finn & Meier in Education Next, 2009)

  10. The Problem with Adequate Yearly Progress (Source: Peterson & West in Education Next, 2006 )

  11. Limited NCLB Impact So Far (Source: Ravitch & Chubb in Education Next, 2009)

  12. What Business Should Do:Time to Hit the Phone Booth • Help schools manage smart • Invest in the supply side • Do what innovators can’t • Get firm with education leaders • Lead with experience and credibility

  13. Help Schools Manage Smart • Promote data and MIS systems • Support performance evaluations • Invest in HR and IT • Watch out for “The New Stupid”

  14. Invest in the Supply Side • Tool Builders • Wireless Generation • SchoolNet • SMARTHINKING • Human Capital • Teach For America • New Leaders for New Schools • The New Teacher Project • Investors • NewSchools Venture Fund • Charter School Growth Fund • Knowledge Investment Partners • Infrastructure • The Mind Trust • New Schools for New Orleans • High Tech High Ed School • School Builders • KIPP Schools • Green Dot Public Schools • Achievement First

  15. Do What Innovators Can’t • Remember why Google is no champion of free speech in China • Few reform venues • Small scale of successful ventures

  16. Get Firm with Education Leaders • Cages of their own design? • Collective bargaining—less restrictive than advertised • Inattention to cost-effectiveness N = 50 The Leadership Limbo (Fordham Foundation 2008) (Source: Hess & Loup, 2008)

  17. Lead with Experience and Credibility • Talk sense about accountability and compensation • NCLB • Merit pay • Shoot down bad ideas • 65% solution • Class size reduction

  18. Leaders in Action Joel Klein, New York City Public Schools • Teacher Performance Units, experienced attorneys who advise principals and litigate incompetence cases against ineffective, tenured teachers • John Deasy, Prince George’s County Public Schools • Transferred hundreds of the district’s 10,800 teachers to new schools • Initiated a voluntary pay-for-performance system • Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of DC Public Schools • Unused law providing for 90 day termination • Side-stepping contract on middle school pilot

  19. Has Business Been Bold Enough? Frederick M. Hess American Enterprise Institute www.aei.org/hess

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