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Creating Generation CQI: Quality in the Classroom Is Where it Starts

This article describes the efforts of the Carolina First Center for Excellence..

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• Publish date: 2007-05
• Keywords:Partnering

Partnerships and the Racine Unified School District

The Racine Unified School District in Racine, WI, is fortunate to have a number of resources on the challenging path between status quo in public education and a future of systemic academic and operational change...

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• Publish date: 2007-05
• Keywords:Partnering

What are the New Responsibilities of our School Leaders?

by Schargel, Franklin P.; Thacker, Tony; Bell, John

This article is excerpted from From At-Risk To Academic Excellence: What Successful Leaders Do?..

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• Publish date: 2007-04
• Keywords:Quality Management

Baldrige...Why This Journey?

by Byrnes, Margaret

Those who have followed the Baldrige path have discovered that amazingly, it does work. While not a quick fix, any school district can reap major improvement - and do so fairly rapidly - when it takes action based on answers to the questions posed by the..

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• Publish date: 2007-03
• Keywords:Baldrige National Quality Program

Baldrige Criteria Mark the Path for

by Williams, Jerry

A May 2006 visit from the Minnesota Council for Quality site team validated the Rochester School District's continuous improvement efforts. At that time, the site team commented, "Faculty and staff portray a commitment to improvement that has become a way..

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• Publish date: 2007-03
• Keywords:Baldrige National Quality Program

Using a State Quality Award at a Research University

by Dew, John

This article describes how the University of Alabama used the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria as the yardstick for measuring and improving the institution...

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• Publish date: 2007-03
• Keywords:Baldrige National Quality Program

State Quality Award Programs Take Baldrige to School

by Menzer, Elizabeth

Schools looking to begin, enhance or sustain their performance improvement journey should turn to state quality programs for guidance, learning opportunities and resources...

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• Publish date: 2007-03
• Keywords:Baldrige National Quality Program

Demystifying Baldrige: Lessons Learned by an Urban Public School District

by Marino, Jay; Marward, Dave

Implementing the Baldrige framework as a comprehensive improvement model in an urban school district has its challenges. This articles describes how one school district made it work..

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• Publish date: 2007-03
• Keywords:Baldrige National Quality Program

What's the Question?

If we fail to educate the underprivileged, we will pay the price for generations to come. Margaret Byrnes offers some suggestions...

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• Publish date: 2006-09
• Keywords:Best Practices

A Strategic Focus on the Use of Data Is Driving Excellence at Miami Dade College

The executive information system (EIS) at Miami Dade College is a web-based system providing easy access to information relevant to meeting strategic goals...

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• Publish date: 2006-09
• Keywords:Best Practices