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Policy Entrepreneurs and School Choicereviewed by Frederick M. Hess - 2002 Title: Policy Entrepreneurs and School Choice Author(s): Michael Mintrom Publisher: Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC ISBN: 0878407707, Pages: 324, Year: 2000 Search for book at Amazon.com Michael Mintrom has provided a thoughtful book on policy
entrepreneurs and the role they played in shaping the fate of
choice-based school reform during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Mintrom pays particular attention to the role of policy
entrepreneurs in advancing the cause of charter schooling, a topic
of obvious and widespread interest to education scholars. While the
volume’s primary theoretical contribution is intended for a
political science audience, both the implications of the
theoretical work and the substantive analysis are likely to prove
useful for readers interested in education policy and the
substantive issues of choice-based school reform.
Mintrom suggests we can best understand policy
entrepreneurs—those individuals who help to market and
disseminate policy reforms—by seeing them as analogous to
private sector entrepreneurs. These individuals play a crucial role
in shaping public policy debates and outcomes, in education as
elsewhere.
While American education has historically been the scene of one
reform effort after another, the questions of who advocates
education reforms, why they pursue them, and to... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Frederick Hess
University of Virginia E-mail Author Frederick M. Hess has been an Assistant Professor of Education and Government at the University of Virginia since 1997. A former high school teacher, he holds an M.Ed. in Education and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. His recent books include Spinning Wheels: The Politics of Urban School Reform, Bringing the Social Sciences Alive, and School Choice in the Real World: Lessons from Arizona Charter Schools. During 2000, his articles appeared in journals including Phi Delta Kappan, Educational Policy, and American School Board Journal.
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