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Category Archives: Quality Management
First Ever Deming Education Conference
As regular readers of this blog know, my first book, The Man Who Discovered Quality, was about W. Edwards Deming, the management guru who helped transform Japanese industry after World War II–the Toyota Production System was developed in collaboration with Deming–and … Continue reading
Letter to Hillary: Beware Education Advice From Hedge-Funds
Last week, The New York Times, published a front page story about the pressure Hillary Rodham Clinton is under to declare herself on a host of controversial education-reform initiatives, including the Common Core State Standards and charter schools, which are … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Quality Management, Women
Tagged Alcoa, Arne Duncan, Common Core, Deming, Deval Patrick, Diane Ravitch, Don Petersen, Ford, Halley Potter, hedge funds, Hillary, Japanese Lesson Study, MCAS, NAEP, New Orleans, PARRC, Paul O'Neill, PISA, quality, Race to the Top, Richard Kahlenberg, RTTT, Teach to Lead, teacher evaluations, teacher leaders, Tom Birmingham, Ursula Burns, W. Edwards Deming, Xerox
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Lessons for Education Reformers from W. Edwards Deming, America’s Leading Management Thinker
When I returned from speaking at the annual conference of the Deming Institute in Los Angeles last month, the education sites were abuzz about a new Time magazine cover trumpeting “Bad Apples”, the latest example of what has become a … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Quality Management
Tagged Abraham Maslow, Allan Mulally, Amber Charter, American Enterprise Institute, Arthur Levine, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bloomberg, bonus system, Cadillac, Capdau charter, common causes, continuous improvement, Deming Institute, Education reform, Ford, Frederick Herzberg, GE, GM, heirarchy of need, If Japan Can Why Can't We, incentive pay, intrinsic motivation, Jack Welch, Joel Klein, Kahlenberg, lesson study, Mercedes Schneider, merit pay, open-source software, Peter Drucker, Pontiac, quality, quality improvement, Quality Management, Roger Smith, Sable, Scholastic, special cause, Taurus, Teach for America, teacher education, TFA, Time magazine, Toyota, Toyota Production System, unions, value-added measurement, VAM, Vanderbilt University, variation, W. Edwards Deming, work rules
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A Watchdog Reflects on the Failures of Former Superintendent Deasy and Other Grown Ups in the Los Angeles Public Schools
During a recent visit to Los Angeles, I sat down with Stuart Magruder, a local architect and controversial watchdog of the Los Angeles Unified School District, to talk about public education in L.A., the iPad debacle, and the recent resignation … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Quality Management
Tagged Apple, bond oversight committee, California State, Chandler, construction bonds, Deasy, Dominguez Hills, Ebay, Google, HP, iPad, LAUSD, MiSiS, Pearson, quality, robotics coding, Shakespeare, Stuart Magruder, W. Edwards Deming, Waldorf School, Yahoo
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Building A Better Teacher: Some Hard Lessons of Ed Reform
I picked up Elizabeth Green’s new book, Building a Better Teacher, with great anticipation. By the time I finished reading the nicely written, highly detailed descriptions of some of the latest efforts to improve teaching, I was alternatively gratified, intrigued … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Quality Management
Tagged accountability, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, brockton high, Carol Burris, charter schools, Deborah Ball, doug lemove, Hanushek, iterative learning, jugyokenkyu, kaizen, KIPP, KIPP Infinity, lesson study, Magdalene lampert, no excuses, Race to the Top, Relay graduate school, Spartan Village, standardized testing, Teach for America, teacher evaluations, test scores, TFA, value-added, W. Edwards Deming
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The (Management) Education of a Charter School Leader
This week, Deborah Kenny, the founder of the Harlem Village Academies charter schools in New York City, wrote an impassioned argument against government-mandated individual teacher evaluations. Kenny, who draws at least some of her inspiration from management gurus such as … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Quality Management
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Lessons for Chicago from the Labor Wars of the Industrial Era
Back in the 1970s, American industry knew just what was wrong with American industry: Recalcitrant workers and high wages, which made products made in the U.S.A uncompetitive with Japanese imports. The result, especially in Detroit and the U.S. auto industry, … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Education, Quality Management
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