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yurbud

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1. Ironically, the one guy in the corporate world who understood how
Sat Jul 21, 2012, 08:27 PM
Jul 2012

to get the best out of people is being ignored by the education "reformers" W. Edwards Deming. His work in Japan is why they wiped the floor with our asses in car quality for a couple of decades.

I've known people who worked in factories run on his principles in America, and they took great pride in the work, product, and company because they had input in what and how things were done.

Nothing could be further from what education reformers are forcing on teachers with top down curriculum, endless repetitive testing, then using that testing as a stick to beat teachers with.

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