Developing a standard definition of the “science of improvement” can enhance healthcare organizations’ improvement efforts, according to a commentary in Quality Management in Health Care. The term ...

“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.” As California begins to roll out support for schools under the new accountability system, educators and policymakers should heed these ...

It is now fall in the United States, and that means many organizations will begin the important work of creating annual organizational goals and budgets. On autopilot, many organizations follow the ...

A class of kindergarten students set out to explore the magic of the circus. What is it about the circus that sparks excitement? Is it the clowns? The acrobats? The high wire act? As this group of ...

A great deal is unknown about what works in learning—but translating even what is known into classroom practice in the myriad settings of American education can be frustrating for researchers and ...

This funding is to lead an initiative to reduce childhood obesity and its associated poor health outcomes in the Birmingham area. It is common for those who have suffered a stroke to overestimate ...

The theory and tools of "improvement science" have produced performance improvements in many organizational sectors. This essay describes improvement science and explores its potential and challenges ...

The Pediatric Office for Improvement Science was created to realize improvement in patient outcomes for children across the state of Alabama by connecting departmental resources with divisional ...

The broken record of broken transfer seems to be on constant repeat in the higher education sector. Going back decades, many states, systems and institutions have enacted sweeping policy changes and ...