Quality in Education: An Implementation Handbook (St Lucie) - Hardcover

Arcaro, Jerry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1884015581 ISBN 13: 9781884015588

Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

During the past 25 years there have been over 250 education reform programs implemented in the United States. Some of these reform programs have met with limited success, but most have been complete failures. The processes outlined in this unique new volume avoid the problems encountered by the previous attempts at educational reform. This book provides educators with a systematic approach to implementing quality in education and gives a complete overview of how quality is applied to education, based on practical experience and not theory. It outlines techniques that enable educators to manage and eliminate fear of the change process and describes a system that encourages all staff to participate in the quality initiative. -- From the Publisher

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1884015581
• ISBN 13: 9781884015588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 188