"The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship" examines the challenge of creating innovative and productive entrepreneurial activity in American education. In the course of exploring these challenges, the book considers a number of crucial issues and circumstances: existing "barriers to entry" that prohibit or obstruct entrepreneurial efforts; the availability--and frequent lack--of venture capital for fueling entrepreneurial activities; the effort to sponsor and create a sufficiently large population of talented educational entrepreneurs; and questions about research, development, and quality control in the burgeoning entrepreneurial sector. A field that is likely to grow in size and importance in the years to come, educational entrepreneurship receives much-needed attention, analysis, and elucidation in this lively, wide-ranging book. Chapters include: (1) Talent Development: Looking Outside the Education Sector (Christopher Gergen and Gregg Vanourek); (2) Attracting Entrepreneurs to K-12 (Bryan C. Hassel); (3) Catalyzing Capital Investment: Lessons from Outside Education (Joseph Keeney and Daniel Pianko); (4) Social Purpose Capital Markets in K-12 (Kim Smith and Julie Petersen); (5) Barriers to Entry: Tales from a Tool Builder (Larry Berger and David Stevenson); (6) Supply-Side Reform on the Ground (Matt Candler); (7) Quality Control in a Dynamic Sector (Chester E. Finn Jr.); (8) Reinventing a Research and Development Capacity (Anthony S. Bryk and Louis M. Gomez); (9) Breaking Regulatory Barriers to Reform (Ed Kirby); and (10) Schools, Tools, and Rules: Creating an Entrepreneurial Future (Frederick M. Hess). Notes and an index are included.