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This whitepaper offers examples of continuous quality improvement methods in use in three broad categories: at the level of classroom instruction, system-wide, and improvement efforts with collective impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Continuous Improvement in Education, a 2013 white paper by Sandra Park, Stephanie Hironaka, Penny Carver, and Lee Nordstrum, the authors provide examples that illustrate how continuous quality improvement methodology is being applied in education toward the goals of making education more efficient, effective, and equitable. The examples are organized in three broad categories: at the level of classroom instruction, system-wide, and improvement efforts with collective impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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