Education for the Future: Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Scale

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This seminar is both a study and a lab: we will examine research evidence on educational innovations and case studies of educational entrepreneurship, while also creating a space for students to test their own ideas with peers. Working in small teams, students will choose an education pedagogy and use it to teach weekly readings in a round-robin format. Each team will refine and redeploy their pedagogy across the semester, iterating based on peer feedback and evidence. By the end of the course, teams will have developed an educational innovation or venture concept and will pitch how it could scale—whether through startups, institutional adoption, or policy reform. Weekly readings provide the theoretical foundation in the economics of innovation and entrepreneurship, complemented by research evidence on educational policies and innovations from around the world.