Word: turnaround
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...White House's new approach amounts to Extreme Makeover: School Edition. Fire the teachers and principals, turn schools into charters, lengthen the day and year, or shut the schools down completely and send the kids elsewhere. These so-called turnaround strategies - which aim to increase test scores, decrease dropout rates and improve classroom culture in short order - are perhaps the most ambitious part of President Obama's education-reform agenda. But it's a high-risk intervention. "This is like telling doctors to pick patients with the most advanced forms of cancer and make them better," says Jack Jennings, president...
Keep the Kids; Bring In New Adults All that said, few would argue with the proposition that radical steps are needed to fix the country's public schools. Champions of the turnaround approach say that where it has been applied properly, the early results are encouraging. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has cited Mastery Charter Schools as a shining example of how to right a capsized ship. So far, Mastery has used the same approach at each of the three schools it has taken over from the School District of Philadelphia since 2006: retain the students, spiff up the place...
...Corporate Classroom Like many of the buzziest concepts in education today, turnaround is a term cribbed from the corporate world. Many a failing company has been transformed by new leadership or some sort of reorganization. An education consultancy published a report last year that pointed to Continental Airlines and the New York City Police Department as entities that in the mid-1990s were able to effect "rapid U-turns from the brink of doom to stellar success." (Hence Domino's Pizza's new ad campaign, the Pizza Turnaround, which highlights its efforts to make its core product taste less like...
Another key factor in the team’s recent success has been its turnaround on power plays, as Harvard scored three power-play goals in its 4-3 victory over Yale on Saturday...
Penn’s downfall came in the 12 fouls it committed, which translated to 13 points for Harvard on 16 shots from the charity line. Throughout the first half, the Crimson committed only six fouls. This difference represented an important turnaround from the night before, when Princeton racked up 15 points off of free throws in a game decided by one possession...