Sentences with phrase «of turnaround strategies»

Deborah Meier is responding to a writing prompt in Richard Elmore's new book: I Used to Think... And Now I Think... 1 In this book, 20 leading educators, researchers, and policy analysts individually reexamine their longstanding views on such school reform topics as community schools, inclusion, the role of unions, the effectiveness of turnaround strategies, and even their faith that any single public policy can make a difference in improving schools.

Most of the turnaround strategies Laura Pappano describes are standard operating procedures in the current reform era.

The American legend had tried a number of turnaround strategies and cost - cutting efforts in recent years, but the company — which since 2004 has reported only one full year of profit — ran short of cash.

Godfreys said on Monday that «good progress» had been made on five main areas of a turnaround strategy, but that trading conditions had continued to be subdued.

The Museum School is also one of the district's 15 «theme» and partnership schools — which include a school in a zoo and one in a nature center — created as part of a turnaround strategy after a 20 - year decline that resulted in the closure of 35 schools, $ 100 million in budget cuts, and loss of 1,000 jobs, 600 of them teachers.

How has School Turnaround Leaders helped you with the core elements of your turnaround strategy?

Don't lead with your managing a migration from Windows XP to Windows 7 unless it was an important part of your turnaround strategy.

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Easterbrook said that he wants to see another quarter or two of positive performance before management switches its mindset from turnaround mode into a longer term growth strategy.

The weak results will stoke investor concerns over the company's stalling growth and the effectiveness of Chief Executive Jack Dorsey's turnaround strategy.

Chip Bergh, Levi Strauss & Company CEO talks about the success of the company's turnaround strategy.

After the September filing, creditors — including holders of some $ 3 billion in bankruptcy financing — complained that Toys «R» Us was being less than forthcoming about its financials, as well as its turnaround strategy.

It's a stunning turnaround for them, considering robo - advisers and passive strategies were supposed to put them out of commission.

A number of factors — such as rising US interest rates, the recurrence of big fluctuations in global currencies, and the widening dispersion of equity returns across sectors and regions — may have helped to create an increasingly conducive environment for hedge - fund strategies, which have seen a positive turnaround in performance in recent quarters.

J.C. Penney's board of directors has ousted CEO Ron Johnson after only 17 months on the job as a risky turnaround strategy backfired and led to massive losses and steep sales drops.

Whether it's a turnaround story or yet another sad chapter leaving to an inevitable bad climax depends on what strategy all of the changes announced today are in aid of.

✔ Conducted over 100 strategy sessions with solutions and technical consultants in identifying ways to resolve outstanding issues based on the digital marketing technologies ✔ Co-Led the establishment of digital marketing delivery processes, thereby increasing efficiencies and project delivery timelines by implementing new project methodologies, thus boosting project turnaround times by 35 %.

Measures such as the Global Skills Strategy (GSS), which introduces a new two - week turnaround time for tech - worker permits, and an ambitious new approach to Work - Integrated - Learning placements, show the Government is listening to the concerns of Canadian CEOs facing talent shortages.

J.C. Penney amassed nearly a billion dollars in losses and its revenue dropped 25 percent for the fiscal year that ended Feb. 2 in the first year of Johnson's turnaround strategy.

In a dramatic turnaround from his election campaign calls for the 16 - year war to be brought to an end, Trump unveiled a new south Asia strategy designed to prevent a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, target Islamic State and al Qaida and stop mass terror attacks in the USA.

The company owns 50 per cent of Australia's third largest mobile carrier, Vodafone Australia, which — after losing market share last year — has been implementing a turnaround strategy under chief executive Bill Morrow, who was brought over from the US.

In a stern defence of the winemaker's strategy, Mr Clarke said the company was offering fair terms to all of its retail customers and, in a sign that his turnaround plan was beginning to gain traction, trading so far this financial year had been strong.

But for the parent company of Chili's and Maggiano's Little Italy, one topic trumped the others: It was the first full period in Chili's self - described «turnaround strategy.

It reveals an agile seven - footer whose turnaround jumper is accurate up to 20 feet; a heady player who discourages double - teaming with canny passes; an outstanding athlete who has somehow figured out the exotic fast - break passing strategies of point guards Mark Jackson and Rod Strickland, both of whom never make a simple move when 13 complicated ones will do; and a defensive intimidator whose 3.7 blocks per game at week's end were second only to Olajuwon's league - leading 4.2.

How the f @@@ did Ramsey stay on the pitch for 90 mins... Clueless from start to finish... Should pay madrid 25m to take him... Without carzola there is no creativity in midfield and no quick turnaround... We are as always at least 2 quality players short of the top european teams... Ok for wenger's 4th place and last 16 strategy but awful for fans...

Vice President of IMANI Africa, Bright Simons, is advising Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to urgently change its investment strategies it is to see a turnaround from its current bleak standing.

Nine out of 10 schools deemed to be struggling are not being taken over by the state as they have another year to implement turnaround strategies.

The UK engineering firm also accused the turnaround company of making «misleading» claims about its strategy and pension scheme.

It remains a small part of the company, but a faster growth strategy could put it front and centre of a potential turnaround, according to chief executive Jim Brett.

Investors are starting to see signs that the leather goods company's turnaround strategy is working, in spite of continued sales softness.

The company's turnaround was the product of a deliberate strategy to re-energise its brand and reassert its place in culture.

Dr. Neil Clarke Warren left eHarmony a few years back, only to take control of the company he founded once again in 2012 to implement a turnaround strategy for its drastically sinking subscriber base.

SANTA MONICA, Calif. --(BUSINESS WIRE)-- On the two - year anniversary of Dr. Neil Clark Warren's return as CEO of eHarmony, the company has announced that its turnaround strategy has driven the highest number of subscribers on the site ever.

Video: Andy Smarick talks with Education Next about why the Obama administration needs to rethink its embrace of turnarounds and adopt a new strategy for the nation's persistently failing schools.

At Marshall, one of four Chicago turnaround high schools, the strategy could be the school's last chance to make a comeback.

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.

I spoke to Mary Jean Gallagher, (Chief Student Achievement Officer of Ontario and Assistant Deputy Minister of the Student Achievement Division of the Ontario Ministry of Education) to find out more about the reform strategies employed to cause this amazing turnaround.

Andy Smarick talks with Education Next about why the Obama administration needs to rethink its embrace of turnarounds and adopt a new strategy for the nation's persistently failing schools.

I agree with Smarick when he talks about the failed strategies of the past, but a reasonable definition of turnaround should exclude those half measures.

Unlike NCLB, however, RttT proffered carrots instead of sticks: money for recession - strapped states that promised to implement education reform strategies, specifically, better teacher - evaluation practices, including using student performance as a metric; better teacher training; improved data gathering; and more school turnaround strategies, including more charter schools.

With six reformers, the new board initiated a turnaround strategy in southwest Denver and approved another major expansion of DSST, which will educate one - quarter of all middle and high schoolers by 2025.

Turnarounds have consistently shown themselves to be ineffective — truly an unscalable strategy for improving urban districts — and our relentless preoccupation with improving the worst schools actually inhibits the development of a healthy urban public - education industry.

NewSchools Venture Fund, the Education Commission of the States, and the research firm Mass Insight have offered related turnaround strategies.

Even with just 8,600 schools in need of improvement, it is not possible for state education agencies to develop and implement effective turnaround strategies, no matter how much money is available.

It will use proven business management strategies such as effective organizational management, finance and accounting practices, restructuring and renewal of troubled organizations, turnaround and crisis management, and lessons in business and education law.

Then, nearly a decade ago, he became commissioner in Massachusetts, where he embraced the Common Core, revamped teacher evaluation, and championed turnaround strategies for some of the state's most - challenged districts.

implement such strategies as financial incentives, increased opportunities for promotion and career growth, and more flexible work conditions that shall be designed to recruit, place, and retain staff with the skills necessary to meet the needs of students in the turnaround school;

Research suggests that school turnaround is possible in the presence of a concerted strategy and comprehensive, dramatic actions.

She currently directs a multi-year evaluation of a comprehensive school turnaround strategy in the Atlanta Public Schools that includes implementation and impact analyses.

The success or failure of the turnaround has national as well as local implications, since U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has made the strategy a centerpiece of federal reform efforts.

They suggest that the portfolio management approach has the promise to far better serve millions of low - income kids than the turnaround - and district - focused strategies of the last several generations.