Education is often touted as data- or evidence-driven. But in this discussion, John Dues contends that educational data is often fiction, given how easy it is to distort, both via the inputs and outputs and through manipulation.
Read Full ArticleWhat is quality? Does it mean always meeting specifications? What if the calculus for specifications means little and tells managers almost nothing about the process or its potential for improvement? Dr. Bill Bellows discusses the negative consequences of this kind of black-and-white thinking and what to do about it.
Read Full ArticleIn this episode, Andrew and David discuss how managers can help people to see themselves as components in a system, working with those before and after them in the process of educating children – for the benefit of all.
Read Full ArticleAndrew talks to Justin Marcharia, Round Table Training Africa’s Managing Director, about his collaboration with The Deming Institute. His goal is to help new and small businesses in East Africa use the Deming philosophy to grow in sustainable ways.
Read Full ArticleMost people come into education familiar with classroom management and curriculum, but the concept of Profound Knowledge changes the way you view the entire field and your part in it. In the second episode of the Deming in Schools Case Study, Andrew and John talk about applying the System of Profound Knowledge to education.
Read Full ArticleIn this, the first in a series of episodes on Awakening Your Inner Deming, Andrew talks with Dr. Bill Bellows about his journey. He started with Taguchi, read his way through other quality “gurus”, and finally found Deming in unexpected places – solving big problems in space shuttles along the way!
Read Full ArticleWith this episode, Andrew and David P. Langford start a new series on the Role of the Manager in Education.
Read Full ArticleIn this new series on applying Deming to education, Andrew talks with John Dues, Chief Learning Officer at United Schools Network and long-time Deming practitioner. This is the first in a series of 12 episodes using John’s school system as a case study for applying Deming in education.
Read Full ArticleAre tests like the SAT – and a potential National Merit Scholarship that goes with a good score – the same as grading or ranking students? David and Andrew discuss the differences.
Read Full ArticleHow many people need to be “on board” in order to start implementing Deming ideas in an organization? Andrew and David P. Langford discuss Dr. Deming’s answer and what that means for folks trying to make changes.
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