Sentences with phrase «dramatic turn arounds»

We've posted on our testimonials page some of the more dramatic turn arounds we've had to let you know its never over.

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Since he joined BlackBerry last month, replacing CEO Thorsten Heins, Chen has started a dramatic overhaul of its executive ranks and begun fresh efforts to turn around the company.
The dramatic shocks of the original QE's are already turning around with commodity prices falling, and food prices now at two - year lows.
We have a tendency to prefer telling dramatic stories about dark, reckless pasts turned around at a sudden moment to grab the attention of the crowd and stir their emotions rather than describe the ebb and flow of real - life faith stories.
«That's good news for taxpayers, businesses and middle - class families, who have seen a dramatic and positive shift in the way business is being done in Albany since Governor Cuomo and Senate Republicans began working together to turn New York around
One camp says its models prove the world is headed toward a dramatic economic collapse as energy scarcity takes hold, while another camp believes there is still time to turn the ship around.
On the other hand, by contracting its scope to the final four months of the Civil War (and, as it turned out, Lincoln's own life), the dramatic impetus of this against - the - clock structure gets lost in a miasma of dry, detailed, school syllabus - friendly historical re-enactments of men standing around in rooms talking and arguing.
I really can't speak to what happened behind the scenes to turn the series around in such a dramatic fashion, but it was one of the most impressive TV turnarounds I've ever seen.
Around the halfway mark, however, the film takes a new turn, as Alain drops out of the picture — in a way that seemed to me a little superfluously dramatic, but I'm guessing that Bidegain couldn't resist a big flashy coup de cinéma now that he's behind the camera.
And while he had a number of offers floating around (including, coincidentally, Logan Marshall - Green «s part in «Prometheus «-RRB-, he seems to have pretty good taste, turning down «Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter» for two serious, dramatic pictures from top directors.
Other dramatic actress nominees were Emily Blunt as Britain's monarch in her early reign in «The Young Victoria,» Helen Mirren as the imperious wife of Leo Tolstoy in «The Last Station,» Carey Mulligan as a 1960s British teen in an affair with an older man in «An Education» and Gabourey Sidibe as an illiterate, abused teen turning her life around in «Precious.»
Duncan said of the results, «There's dramatic change happening in these schools, and in the long - term process of turning around the nation's lowest - performing schools, one year of test results only tells a small piece of the puzzle.»
The winning states are making dramatic changes in how they do business — adopting common standards and assessments, building data systems that measure student growth and success, retaining effective teachers and principals, and turning around their lowest performing schools.
The guide, «Turning Around Chronically Low - Performing Schools» (ies.ed.gov / ncee / wwc / practiceguides), cites teacher collaboration as a frequent approach to improving instruction in 35 chronically low - performing schools that achieved dramatic turnarounds (substantial gains in student achievement within three years).
«For far too long, these schools have continued to deny students an equal - education opportunity and have been struggling, and we need to take more dramatic steps to turn them around,» said Jason Snyder, deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Education.
If we can not turn around our lowest performing schools and show dramatic results I'm afraid that we will hear even greater calls for the privatization of schooling in America through the use of market forces to increase competition.
To be eligible, states had to agree to adopt new common standards and tests (the Common Core State Standards); expand the number of charter schools; evaluate the effectiveness of teachers in significant part by the test scores of their students (and remove any statutory barriers to doing so); and agree to «turn around» their lowest - performing schools by taking such dramatic steps as firing staff and closing the schools.
In this Issue Brief, prepared by Public Impact for The Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement at Learning Point Associates, we offer seven steps for district leaders to support the dramatic change required to turn around chronic low performance.
«The promise was dramatic, lasting change in turning around the nation's worst 5,000 schools,» said Andrew Smarick, a former federal education official and a partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a consulting firm.
This study identified six factors needed to successfully turn around chronically low - performing schools: recognition of the challenge; dramatic and fundamental change; urgency; supportive operating conditions; new - model, high - capacity partners; and new state and district structures.
Anyone who visits a school that has been turned around or seen a dramatic improvement in results will know that it is impossible without the inspirational leadership that brilliant heads provide.
The track contains dramatic elevation changes and hairpin turns that mimic stretches of Millen's favorite tracks around the world.
After the dramatic turn of events in the top - spec LMP1 category at the twice - around - the - clock event in France, I'm torn.
From Factory Build The Car Came With Renault Sport Embossed Half Leather & Suede Sport Seats Beautifully Complemented With Light Grey Twin Needle Stitch Detail, Blue Carpets, The Two Tone Blue & Grey Dash That Wraps Around The Dramatic Interior, Light Grey Fabric Roof Lining, Suede Trimmed Door Cards, The Aluminium Turned Gear Selector And Decorated With The Numbered Motif Of 470.
From Factory Build This Example Is Finished With The Portland Ivory Leather Sport Seats Beautifully Complemented With The Red Twin Needle Stitch Detail, The Optional Sagaris Embossed Body Colour Coded Seat Backs, The Two Tone Portland Ivory & Red Leather Trimmed Dash That Wraps Around This Unforgiving Space, Grey Carpets Detailed With Red Piping, The Two Tone Portland Ivory & Red Leather Bound Door Cards, The Three Spoke Black Leather Trimmed Steering Wheel, The Light Grey Suede Roof Lining, The Red Leather Trimmed Centred Tunnel, The Metal Turned Gear Shift And Hand Brake Lever, The Ivory Leather Top Roof Fitments And Beautifully Decorated With Metal Turned Switches That Finish This Highly Dramatic Environment Off Perfectly.
Presuming that, management should now place an increasing emphasis on capital allocation: i) Surplus cash continues to build (the company has minimal debt), and ii) unless we see a dramatic turn - around, the stagnant revenue & collapsing margins of the Electronic division (Grosvenor Technology) are worth more sold off, with the proceeds returned to shareholders (or reinvested in Asset Protection).
The longstanding secrecy surrounding Gerstl's dramatic and untimely suicide at the age of 25, and the scandalous love affair that preceded his death, only further magnify the legend that has grown around this lesser known, but influential member of Vienna's artistic avant - garde at the turn of the twentieth century.
As climate change leads to dramatic changes in the day to day weather patterns, with hurricanes and floods frequently headlining the news around the world, it makes you wonder why people are still turning a blind eye to this ginormous issue.
In a dramatic turn - around the Court of Appeal has allowed the appeal and set aside the order below dismissing this personal injury case.
Writing 95, 112 (2000)(noting the dramatic shift toward full - time legal writing instruction in law schools around the turn of the millennium).
Your visual resume will be an additional nice touch, among hundreds of tasks: phone calls, researching companies, tailoring and sending resumes, emailing hiring managers, following up, attending events, interviewing... Don't expect a dramatic turn - around.
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