Improving Student Learning: Applying Deming's Quality Principles in Classrooms

From: Quality Progress | Date: December 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Improving Student Learning: Applying Deming's Quality Principles in Classrooms, Lee Jenkins, ASQ Quality Press, 611 E. Wisconsin Ave., P.O. Box 3005, Milwaukee, WI 53201-3005,1996, 250 pp. Available through ASQ's Publications catalog: member price $27, list price $30.

This book provides an overview of W. Edwards Deming's principles and their broad application to education. Designed for nonstatistical and nontechnical readers, this book speaks to teachers and school administrators as well as to parents.

The discussion of Deming's philosophy is practical and given in a global perspective. ...

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