Malcolm and Me: How to Use the Baldrige Process to Improve Your School.Richard E. Maurer and Sandra Cokeley Pedersen, two major players in the Pearl River Pearl River, uninc. village (1990 pop. 15,314), Rockland co., SE N.Y., near the N.J. line. It is a residential suburb of New York City, and a computer and telecommunications research and development center. Pearl River River, central Mississippi, U. , N.Y., school system's Baldrige Award recognition, have prepared a compact and readable text on how the district used this process to its significant advantage. In Malcolm and Me: How to Use the Baldrige Process to Improve Your School, the co-authors use a narrative story line about the district's mission statement ("Every Child Can and Will Learn") and its goals to support that vision. The three goals are to improve student performance, project quality principles to the community and its stakeholders, and maintain stability and cost effectiveness. Maurer, a superintendent, and Pedersen, a community relations 1. The relationship between military and civilian communities. 2. Those public affairs programs that address issues of interest to the general public, business, academia, veterans, Service organizations, military-related associations, and other non-news media entities. director, indicate that the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award is given by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology. Through the actions of the National Productivity Advisory Committee chaired by Jack Grayson, it was established by the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality process can be used in any education organization, whether a university, public system or private school or a department within a college. They point to the success of the process generally, noting that the 55 companies earning Baldrige awards since 1988 have geometrically outperformed the S&P 500 stock market index. The Pearl River schools, the authors contend, have experienced across-the-board improvement in academic performance, a high degree of community support and an increase in "market share"--the percentage of students returning from private schools to the public system. The Baldrige Award, named after the late U.S. secretary of commerce, is based on the principles of Six Sigma Not to be confused with Sigma 6. Six Sigma is a set of practices originally developed by Motorola to systematically improve processes by eliminating defects.[1] A defect is defined as nonconformity of a product or service to its specifications. , ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9000 and W. Edwards Deming's concept of continuous improvement. To date, there have been five awardees in the education category. (Malcolm and Me: How to Use the Baldrige Process to Improve Your School by Richard E. Maurer and Sandra Cokeley Pedersen, ScarecrowEducation, Lanham, Md., 2003, 88 pp., $17.95 softcover. Log on to www.aasa.org to order. AASA members receive a 20 percent discount on Scarecrow Scarecrow goes to Wizard of Oz to get brains. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz] See : Ignorance Scarecrow can’t live up to his name. [Am. Lit.: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Am. titles.) |
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