With the Best of Intentions: How Philanthropy Is Reshaping K-12 Education.With the Best of Intentions: How Philanthropy Is Reshaping K-12 Education. Edited by Frederick M. Hess. (Harvard Education Press). This volume of insightful papers, first presented at an American Enterprise Institute The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative think tank, founded in 1943. According to the institute its mission "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism — limited government, conference last April, is better than best intentions. To those 11 AEI AEI American Enterprise Institute AEI Archive of European Integration AEI Australian Education International AEI Automotive Engineering International AEI Australian Education Index AEI Albert Einstein Institute contributions (by such competent analysts as Bryan Hassel, Andrew Rotherham, Jane Hannaway, Tom Loveless, Leslie Lenkowsky, Richard L. Colvin, and Jay Greene Jay Greene is a retired NASA engineer. He worked as a flight controller during the Apollo Program and was a flight director from 1982 to 1986, most notably serving as ascent flight director at the time of the Challenger accident in 1986. ) Hess has added perceptive introductory and concluding essays. Education philanthropy, he declares, is "disorderly, visible, and little studied." Though dwarfed by public tax dollars, these gifts gain leverage from their own visibility and that of their benefactors, particularly the newer ones such as the Gates and Broad foundations. Hess ends with a thoughtful listing of five "challenges" that are "aggravated ag·gra·vate tr.v. ag·gra·vat·ed, ag·gra·vat·ing, ag·gra·vates 1. To make worse or more troublesome. 2. To rouse to exasperation or anger; provoke. See Synonyms at annoy. by the nature, ambition, and tactics of the emergent emergent /emer·gent/ (e-mer´jent) 1. coming out from a cavity or other part. 2. pertaining to an emergency. emergent 1. coming out from a cavity or other part. 2. coming on suddenly. 'new' givers." Well worth the attention of reformers and educators, not to mention philanthropists. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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