Wall Street Journal Features Hawken Entrepreneurship Program

In response to a declining number of young entrepreneurs, educators and business people are looking for ways to prepare students for the challenges of creating their own businesses. The proportion of young adults owning a business has fallen to the lowest level in at least 24 years, notes the article.

“The mistake we’ve made about entrepreneurship is thinking that it’s like a job and that you can teach it, like accounting,” added Steve Blank, a veteran technology entrepreneur and supporter of Hawken's Educator's Workshops for Entrepreneurial Studies.

"Hawken School in Cleveland introduced a semester-long class two years ago in which high schoolers spend nine weeks solving the real problems facing three local business owners," notes WSJ author Ruth Simon. Read the full WSJ here.

Visit hawken.edu/entrepreneurship for more about Hawken's entreprenurship program for students.

Learn more about Hawken's popular Educator's Workshops for Entrepreneurial Studies, described by Steve Blank as "The Woodstock of K-12 Education" in a blog for the Huffington Post.