Educational Entrepreneurship: Why is There so Little?

Listen to Dr. Rick Hess will talk about how school choice advocates have “long operated in the hope that it would spur districts to dramatically improve.” Or failing that, they’ve assumed choice would “summon forth a wealth of impressive new providers.” Yet despite a “variety of promising sparks,” he contends, “neither expectation has been met.” Why?

According to Dr. Hess, debate over choice has failed to recognize that “consumer freedom is only half the market equation.” Or more to the point, “demand unanswered by a supply-side response will not deliver hoped-for school improvements.”