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Making The Honor Roll: Can Schools Learn From Business Excellence?, Oscar Humberto Salcedo
Making The Honor Roll: Can Schools Learn From Business Excellence?, Oscar Humberto Salcedo
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Our schools and school systems are feeling crunched from different directions. Some stakeholders are clamoring for more accountability, others for better results, and still others to do more with less funding. It is not surprising then that school communities are trying different approaches in an attempt to be responsive to different voices. Several schools have decided to borrow the disciplines of the International Standard known as "ISO 9001:2000" (hereafter ISO 9001) from the business realm in an attempt to address these pressures. This research investigates the applicability and benefits of ISO 9001, as perceived by school administrators and educators …