K-12 Educational Reform
Posted on April 17, 2007 Comments (0)
Educational Reform Failing K-12 Students, Educator Says by Victor M. Inzunza:
Educational reform has failed to substantially increase K-12 student achievement despite a “massive expenditure of resources,” but the system can be improved if some of the concepts of the influential quality-control expert W. Edwards Deming are applied to schooling, said a former New York Department of Education official
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it’s turned itself into a one-size-fits-all, mass-production system where the individual needs of young people are often overlooked to the detriment of their learning.
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it’s turned itself into a one-size-fits-all, mass-production system where the individual needs of young people are often overlooked to the detriment of their learning.
Applying Deming’s ideas to education is a challenge (it is not as simple as applying the ideas in another business – some additional thought is needed to see how ideas apply to education systems) but very worthwhile. David Langford has done some great work in applying Deming’s ideas to education.
Related: education related posts – Quality in Our Schools – K-12 (kindergarten though high school) quality improvement links – Applying Total Quality Management Principles To Secondary Education, Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Sitka, Alaska by Kathleen Cotton – Feel Bad Education by Alfie Kohn
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