"Turnaround efforts" refers to the actions and strategies taken to improve or restore something, such as a company, that is experiencing difficulties or facing a decline. The phrase implies putting in effort to reverse a negative situation and create positive results.
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This raises serious questions about the wisdom of the federal government pumping $ 3 billion into
school turnaround efforts instead of using some of the money to replicate and scale up successful charter models.
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Led numerous company - level strategic projects and led plant - level
turnaround efforts for struggling plants.
While all reform models have been implemented with additional money,
turnaround efforts require the largest investment from the district.
This brief also includes case studies of four schools that have successfully increased student achievement through
targeted turnaround efforts.
The parent trigger has come to the silver screen in Won't Back Down — a big - budget film that chronicles a
fictional turnaround effort.
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.
We've come to conclude that the most critical action schools can take to boost usage and engage stakeholders in their school
culture turnaround efforts is planning out school - wide incentives.
Many of these schools have been failing for decades, and are lacking any sort of
concerted turnaround effort to dramatically improve performance.
The board has requested deeper training on successful turnaround strategies, including the board role in supporting turnaround, as well as a deeper dive into local accountability systems and
local turnaround efforts.
The good news is that there are examples of
successful turnaround efforts, where key ingredients include great leaders and school systems ready to respond with best practices at the center of their work.
While turnaround efforts are ultimately judged by improvements in academic proficiency and graduation rates, schools that most successfully turn around tend to focus their efforts more broadly.
«We encourage investors to balance the near - term
turnaround efforts with the fact that rivals still have several competitive countermeasures at their disposal (more aggressive pricing and, in Amazon's case, enhancements to Prime memberships),» wrote R. J. Hottovy.
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.
Create and sustain a critical mass of high performing and aspiring campus leaders with strong potential for success, and prepare them through the McNeil Foundation alternative certification program for school leaders to successfully
lead turnaround efforts;
McDonald's Corp said it would debut a «McPick» U.S. value menu in January
as turnaround efforts continue at the world's largest restaurant chain by revenue.
The health - care sector was another major decliner after Valeant said it won't return to growth for another year as it
continues turnaround efforts.
Whether countervailing forces — federal pressure, political pressure from organized parent groups, or conscientious officials committed to the law's goals — are strong enough to force states and districts to implement meaningful
turnaround efforts remains to be seen, but the evidence so far is not encouraging.
I was alarmed at how much we were spending on SIG and the awful track record of
previous turnaround efforts, and I was sure that districts would pick weak interventions and that kids were going to continue languishing in these schools while we went about this misguided adventure.
CTAC has partnered with numerous school districts and state agencies to
implement turnaround efforts in school districts throughout California.
In a presentation to the State Board of Education earlier this month, Vanderbilt researcher Gary Henry said he found positive effects
from turnaround efforts in North Carolina's bottom ranked elementary schools — but without continued state funding to replace the temporary federal dollars that were put toward this initiative, those gains won't continue.
«Lawrence is a rare example of a district -
wide turnaround effort that has led to some positive results,» says Beth Schueler, a Harvard Graduate School of Education...
These improvements, known as «wraparound services,» have been successful in
other turnaround efforts, notably the Harlem Children's Zone in New York, where families get free access to an array of health and nutrition counseling as well as after - school programs, truancy prevention, literacy programs, financial advice and domestic - crisis resolution.
States were encouraged to spend vast sums of money on new systems to track output data and use them to sort and rank schools, evaluate teachers, label students, and force schools
into turnaround efforts that would result in being subjected to even more scrupulous data tracking.
States can
focus turnaround efforts on schools with particularly low subgroup achievement — rather than schools with large achievement gaps.
The law governing the Innovative School District requires a partnership with a private charter school operator that will manage the day - to - day operations of schools selected for
state turnaround efforts.
Thus, we sought schools where specific practices in the PK — 3 years aligned with and accelerated promising
turnaround efforts through the implementation of the SIG models.
The schools in Camden will not require quite the same kind
of turnaround effort as those in Philadelphia, where Mastery now operates 15 schools.
The naming of Chinese actress Yang Mi as the company's first brand ambassador could position Kors even more prominently within the key China market, and improved social media metrics point to a new buzz for the retailer that will be important in its long -
term turnaround efforts.
Transformational leaders are agents of change directly responsible for leading, encouraging, empowering and overseeing the school -
turnaround efforts regardless of their students» circumstances.
In Nashville, Cameron Middle School had already attempted several
unsuccessful turnaround efforts when the district invited charter operators to convert the school to a charter.
Education Week, Catalyst Chicago, Education News Colorado, GothamSchools, and The Philadelphia Public School Notebook have been
following turnaround efforts in five regions.
We are so proud of our
many turnaround efforts, from those made prior to implementation of ELT to all those made since.
The
latest turnaround effort began in January when the chain started closing 120 of its stores, Chief Restructuring Officer Holly Felder Etlin said in court papers filed Wednesday in Manhattan federal court.
Higher US Spending Marks McDonald's Results, Hints At Resilient Consumer The fast food giant beat estimates on both the top and bottom lines, with same - store restaurant sales gaining on what has been billed as a
multiyear turnaround effort.
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