Getting Your Arms Around the Elephant

From the Columbia City, IN "Post & Mail" comes a story of elementary school improvement resulting from the use of the Baldrige Standards. Northern Heights Elementary School has been using the criteria as a means of improving test scores, and it's working. Students carefully track their test results and three times a year they take a practice test similar to the ISTEP test which is used to measure school improvement. Since starting the program five years ago, the school has improved its scores on the real test.

Any organization can benefit from using the Baldrige critera as a business (school) mode.Categories: baldrige, excellence, school, criteria