ERIC Number: ED359611
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1992
Pages: 111
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Creating the Total Quality Effective School.
Lezotte, Lawrence W.
This book shows how Deming's Total Quality Management (TQM) theory for organizational management can be integrated with the effective-schools literature. Part 1 compares the 14 principles of TQM with the tenets of effective-schools research. The second part develops a blueprint for creating the total quality effective school. The conceptual framework is based on four common places--the teacher, the learner, the subject, and the setting--which interact with instructional processes to produce student learning outcomes. Tools for implementing the total quality effective school are described in part 3, which include the following: restructuring yesterday's school; changing the locus of decision making; empowering teachers; aligning curriculum and instruction; using information-processing technology; identifying the best practices; applying statistical process controls; using student performance measures; and assessing correlates of effective schools. Finally, the implementation process follows five stages: clarify and codify goals; establish student-performance standards; operationalize performance measures; analyze quality; and implement solutions in a quality way. (Contains 21 references.) (LMI)
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Quality, Educational Theories, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Climate, Organizational Theories, Productivity, Program Implementation, School Effectiveness, Total Quality Management
Effective Schools Products, Ltd., 2199 Jolly Road, Suite 160, Okemos, MI 48864 ($25 prepaid; $2.50 shipping and handling charge on billed orders).
Publication Type: Books; Opinion Papers; Guides - Non-Classroom
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Language: English
Sponsor: Department of Education, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Michigan Inst. for Educational Management, Ann Arbor.; Effective Schools Products, Ltd., Okemos, MI.
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