Total Quality Management (TQM) promotes a long-term, strategic look at organizations; by extension, Total Quality Education (TQE) promotes an essential, strategic view of communities, educational provisions, and children. This book discusses applying the TQM approach, which focuses on long-term quality, to a TQE, communitywide focus. The emphasis is on long-range solutions to the problems affecting schools. The book shows school administrators how to communicate TQE concepts and build strong ties with community and business. It also offers strategies for organizing a campaign that refocuses communities on schools. Chapters contain practical tips, checklists, charts, reflective forms for developing strategies, surveys for data collection, and information management tactics. The first four chapters describe strategies for creating constancy of purpose, changing from competition to cooperation, building trust among partners, and fostering interagency collaboration. The fifth chapter describes educational futures in collaborative systems--changes in education to meet the needs of all children in the next century. Key terms and references are offered at the end of each chapter. (LMI)