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Tilling, Seeding, and Weeding: Creating New and Better Schools

by Michael Q. McShane - September 19, 2016

Cultivating an ecosystem of new and better schools is a lot like gardening. It takes tilling (creating a policy environment that allows for new schools), seeding (starting schools with the necessary human capital to flourish), and weeding (regulation).

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Michael McShane The American Enterprise Institute E-mail Author MICHAEL Q. MCSHANE is a research fellow at The American Enterprise Institute.

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