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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
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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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