I am winding up a short trip to Baton Rouge, LA. Yesterday I conducted a workshop on how entrepreneurial practices and principles can be applied to educational organizations to a group of aspiring school principals. It is a pilot program to help use entrepreneurship to transform education in the state of Louisiana. It was a day that gave me hope for educational in the US.
There is a growing interest in how business principles — such as competition and entrepreneurial innovation — can help fix what is ailing the educational system. There is huge resistance from teachers’ unions and school of education in universities. But, parents, business owners, and civic leaders are beginning to say “enough is enough.”
You can see more on this program and its goals here at the website of the sponsoring organization, Advance Baton Rouge.