Sentences with phrase «failed turnaround effort»

The breach disclosed last week is the latest black eye for Ms. Mayer, whose failed turnaround effort resulted in Yahoo's agreement in July to sell its core operations to Verizon for $ 4.8 billion.

I wrote about them on November 22, 2013, noting how SIG was following the script of previous failed turnaround efforts.

In a decade or so, some other contrarian blogger can add SIG to the long list of failed turnaround efforts.

Falling into the same trap that had ensnarled countless previous reformers, the administration contended that generations of failed turnaround efforts were the consequence of insufficient funding and the wrong strategies.

In Try Try Again, Public Impact makes the case for «rapid retry» — attempting new major change now rather than letting failing turnaround efforts drag on for years.

Not exact matches

The company is struggling after a three - year turnaround effort led by Mayer failed to gain much traction.

The correct decision is, as I have been continually advocating for years, to fire the current administrator, develop a full efficiency and profitability turnaround plan with a strict timeline, and, if only if those concerted efforts fail, then sell the hospital to a carefully selected and responsible buyer directly rather than through the budgetary gimmick of an LDC.

But Julie Corbett of Mass Insight Education, a nonprofit that focuses on school - turnaround efforts, says actually turning around a failing school requires comprehensive, sustainable planning and a willingness to look for outside help.

A sweeping and ambitious turnaround plan for schools in the newer neighborhoods around Denver International Airport led to a failed recall effort against the school board president this spring.

Under the Obama administration, the federal government spent over $ 7 billion in an effort to turnaround failing schools via the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program.

I'm highly skeptical of most district turnaround efforts, and I believe that chartering is a better way to increase the educational opportunity of children attending failing schools.

All states have been actively engaged in efforts to turnaround failing schools, but the effectiveness of such efforts has varied dramatically across jurisdictions.

After decades of academic decline, and on the heels of a failed attempt to transform the school by bringing in better curricula, the turnaround could well be viewed as a last - ditch effort at reinvention.

In «The Turnaround Fallacy,» an article that appeared in Education Next seven years ago, he reviewed the research on turnaround efforts and urged «Stop trying to fix failing schools.

With unprecedented federal investment in failing schools through the multi-billion-dollar School Improvement Grant program, it's been a big year for school turnaround efforts.

Many of those schools have been failing for a decade or longer despite numerous turnaround efforts, largely because they have been overseen by districts that are themselves failing.

New efforts labeled «recovery school districts,» «achievement school districts,» «turnaround schools,» and the like are making their way into places that include Tennessee, Louisiana, and Arkansas, to name a few — efforts that allow states to take over failing schools and relegate their management to private charter school operators that would be free to fire teachers and start from scratch.

Too often, opponents of turnaround schools (a system of accelerating growth of student achievement partly by changing the adults who serve the students and removing restrictions that impede student success - including any collective bargaining agreements that don't put students» interest in the forefront) remain steadfastly wed to the failing status quo that undermines families» efforts to improve their circumstances through education.

Many of these schools have been failing for decades, and are lacking any sort of concerted turnaround effort to dramatically improve performance.

After successive years of failing to meet high - stakes testing and accountability mandates required by NCLB (2002), schools across the nation have undergone numerous restructuring practices in an effort to «turnaround» their failure.