Sentences with phrase «around new widgets»

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If it's a brand - new startup that has the best widget on the market, we find that those businesses fail around 90 percent of the time.

This won't come as a surprise to anyone who has worked in one of these agencies or tracked their struggles to improve failing schools under NCLB, turn around the troubled districts that they've taken over, ensure that new educator evaluation systems end the «widget effect,» complete Race to the Top deliverables on time, or successfully administer federal School Improvement Grants.

The trend is that instead of having such figures with 99 % of teachers being rated as satisfactory or above (see «The Widget Effect» report here), these new and improved teacher evaluation systems are to distribute teachers» evaluation scores around a normal curve, that is more likely true, whereas many more teachers are to be identified for their ineffectiveness.