Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 2012-02-13
Category :
ISBN : 9789264130845
Across OECD countries, almost one in every five students does not reach a basic minimum level of skills. This book presents a series of policy recommendations for education systems to help all children succeed.
Author : Jerry Arcaro
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 1995-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781884015588
Although hundreds of school improvement programs have been launched in the United States over the past quarter century, very few of them have been successful. The author of Quality in Education: An Implementation Handbook, an experienced quality expert who specializes in education, believes that many of these programs could have succeeded had their developers understood and applied the theories and methods of Total Quality Management (TQM). This book explains how to avoid the pitfalls that doomed previous efforts to failure, and apply TQM to build a strong foundation for success. Beginning with the basic concepts and tools, this book is your complete guide as you embark on your quality journey. The handbook explains the importance of making a commitment to change and establishing a shared vision of quality, and discusses tools and techniques for overcoming resistance and developing a quality culture. The book covers new methods you can use to manage change, and includes exercises to help you apply the ideas in your organization. Examples from successful schools demonstrate how Total Quality Management can be applied to every area of education, from classroom management to building maintenance. Quality in Education: An Implementation Handbook teaches you how to make fundamental changes to the way people in your district or school view education and themselves as educators. Using the principles and methods in this book ,you can realize the tremendous benefits of quality - continuous improvement in every educational process.
Author : John G. Ainley
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,81 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Education, Secondary
ISBN : 9780864310484
The study reported in this monograph, which was conducted jointly by the Australian Council for Educational Research and the Education Department of Victoria, investigated the organization and curriculum of government secondary schools in Victoria, Australia, and how those factors influence what teachers do and what views students have of the quality of their school life. Data were drawn from a survey of organizational and curriculum arrangements in secondary schools, a study of teachers and students in a sample of 53 schools, and a series of studies based on field work in a selection of schools. Overall, data sources total 8,464 students comprising the sample from the 53 schools; and 1,646 teachers, representing a response rate of approximately 65 percent. Among the findings were that teachers' job satisfaction was enhanced when there was frequent communication among staff and when they saw the curriculum as being well-coordinated. Students viewed the quality of school life more favorably when the curriculum recognized their diverse aptitudes and when the level of communication among their teachers was high. The report is presented in eight chapters with 35 tables and 71 references. The appendices contain technical notes on sampling, the school life questionnaire, and the teacher questionnaire along with 11 technical references. Copies of the three questionnaires are attached. (MLF)
Author : Anthony S. Bryk
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0226078019
In 1988, the Chicago public school system decentralized, granting parents and communities significant resources and authority to reform their schools in dramatic ways. To track the effects of this bold experiment, the authors of Organizing Schools for Improvement collected a wealth of data on elementary schools in Chicago. Over a seven-year period they identified one hundred elementary schools that had substantially improved—and one hundred that had not. What did the successful schools do to accelerate student learning? The authors of this illuminating book identify a comprehensive set of practices and conditions that were key factors for improvement, including school leadership, the professional capacity of the faculty and staff, and a student-centered learning climate. In addition, they analyze the impact of social dynamics, including crime, critically examining the inextricable link between schools and their communities. Putting their data onto a more human scale, they also chronicle the stories of two neighboring schools with very different trajectories. The lessons gleaned from this groundbreaking study will be invaluable for anyone involved with urban education.
Author : Joyce Levy Epstein
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. : LexingtonBooks
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Joseph C. Fields
Publisher : ASQ Quality Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
As American corporations continue to progress in quality improvement, American educators must keep pace if they want to contribute to America's future competitiveness. Written for anyone interested in the advancement of American education, this book shows how the same principles that improve quality services and products in any enterprise also can be applied to American schools. Fields shows how to apply Dr. W. Edwards Deming's principles for quality management to improve education.
Author : Maureen T. Hallinan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 1489904689
This volume addresses key issues in the sociology of education concerning how schools are organized for instruction and what processes link school organization and instruction to educa tional achievement. The content of the chapters represents a shift in focus from traditional and even recent themes in soci ology of education, including the study of school effects and of classroom processes, to a concern with the social organization of schools and its consequences for student outcomes. Rather than reviewing or evaluating existing research, the chapters present new and developing conceptualizations of the school ing process and provide theoretical models to guide future empirical work on schools. A unique feature of this book is its heavy emphasis on theory. Each chapter presents a theoretical model or argument concerning an issue of central importance in sociology of edu cation. The empirical analyses and simulations that are included are often more for illustrative purposes than for rigorous hypothesis testing, and some chapters have no data analysis at all. The major strength of the volume, therefore, lies in the new conceptualizations and reconceptualizations it provides of fundamental processes relating school organization to student learning. Theoretical work such as this is exactly what is needed in an area that has traditionally been, for the most part, empir ical and atheoretical. Another important feature of this volume is the various approaches it presents to the study of school organization.
Author : Edward Sallis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135725365
This new edition introduces the key concepts of TQM in the education context, discusses organizational, leadership and teamwork issues, the tools and techniques of TQM, and will help educators develop a framework for management in their school.
Author : American Association of School Administrators
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
In 1991, the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) published "An Introduction to Total Quality for Schools" to initiate its new learning network. This second collection of readings on quality management in education offers a series of perspectives through which readers can refine their own definitions and knowledge. It contains lessons from practice within classrooms, buildings, districts, and statewide networks as well as in fields such as vocational and special education. Also included are summaries, historical overviews, lessons from other fields, and assessments of current status. The first section of the book gives the broad picture of how in the 1980s the United States began to listen to W. Edwards Deming and others advocating a new nonhierarchical system of management based on teamwork, empowerment of workers, and commitment to continuous improvement. The second section describes how educators interpret quality management principles in education, and the third shows how these principles are being applied in classrooms, schools, school districts, community colleges, and universities. The final section contains articles from AASA's newsletter, "Quality Network News," contributed by educators who describe their own experiences with quality management. Appended are lists of further readings about quality and other AASA resources on quality management in education, bibliographic credits for each article, an author index, and a school district index. (MLF)
Author : Ncafe Nc Awards Excellence
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2020-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 100016215X
When it comes to educational performance, the United States does not fare well in comparison to our global competitors. Numerous challenges, such as our increasing dependence on technology, and the ongoing difficulties we face in providing cost-effective, good quality public education, point to the need for changes in our educational system if we are to provide a competitive workforce in the future.
