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The Koalaty Kid approach seeks to bring quality improvement methods and principles to the school environment. This strategy has won support among Ocala schools as exemplified by the Madison Street School in Florida. Based on W. Edwards Deming's ideas, Koalaty Kid training programs have initiated the school team in basic quality methods such as affinity diagrams and force-field analysis. These quality tools have been instrumental in supporting educational efforts such as improving the writing skills of a second grade class. The program is likely to be introduced in other areas of the school.
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Quality practitioners of the 1990s were influenced by the philosophies of Walter Shewhart and W. Edwards Deming. The concepts developed by these two pragmatists were compared to those of Richard Rorty, a contemporary pragmatist. Rorty believes that serious learning occurs with edifying discourses rather than in the matching of prediction with outcome. For him, quality practitioners should focus on conversations that happen in the organization so as to extract knowledge, and enhance and encourage such open exchanges.
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A World Wide Web site produced by CC-M communicates with students, scholars and practitioners of W. Edwards Deming's management philosophy. The understanding and practice of Deming's methods improve effectiveness, efficiency, creativity and personal development. A comprehensive overview of the Web pages is the 14 points tour which focus on the purpose of qua
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