Abstract Abstract Turnaround leadership concerns the kind of leadership needed for turning around a persistently low-performing school to one that is performing acceptably as measured by student achievement according to state tests. I first treat this question in the narrow sense, i.e., as a strategy for targeting low-performing schools, and then place it in a larger context—namely, how such turnaround can be part of an overall approach to sustainable system change. The sequence I will consider ...
Tópico(s): Evaluation and Performance Assessment
2005 - Taylor & Francis | The Educational Forum
The use of turnaround management strategies (TMS) in the public context is beginning to be researched, however adjusted measurement tools are still needed. This article describes the construction and validation of a new scale for measuring TMS in local authorities.
Tópico(s): Construction Project Management and Performance
2009 - Taylor & Francis | Public Money & Management
One of the US Department of Education's key priorities is turning around the nation's persistently low-achieving schools, yet exactly how to identify low-performing schools is a task left to state policy makers, and a myriad of definitions have been utilized. In addition, exactly how to recognize when a school begins to turn around is not well established in the research literature. This article presents some of the lessons learned from a project that empirically identified chronically low-performing ...
Tópico(s): Educational Assessment and Improvement
2012 - Routledge | Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR)
Purpose The aim of this study is to establish a framework with which process plants can evaluate the performance of their turnaround maintenance (TAM) projects at the end of the event without making reference to previous events. Design/methodology/approach This is a case study. The study involved the case studies of six process plants in the UK. Three sources of evidence were used in this study including; interviews, direct observation and official documents. Findings The case studies show that TAM ...
Tópico(s): Corporate Insolvency and Governance
2012 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
Purpose The aim of this study is to identify and establish management skills/knowledge required for the successful management of turnaround maintenance (TAM) projects. Design/methodology/approach A mixed‐method research approach was adopted for this study involving questionnaire survey and case studies of major continuous process plants in the UK. Data were collected through questionnaires from 160 process plants and the case studies of six process plants in the UK. These data were triangulated to ...
Tópico(s): Corporate Finance and Governance
2013 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
American educational policies over the last 40 years have represented an uninterrupted movement toward centralization. This article analyzes three terms that have become critical to the centralization of American education. More specifically, this article reviews the development, language, and source of the thematic terms and associated language of achievement gap, NCLB, and school turnaround. The author contends that the level of each term's entrenchment in American education varies but that their ...
Tópico(s): Educational Assessment and Improvement
2012 - Taylor & Francis | Peabody Journal of Education
School turnaround has become a popular strategy for improvement of chronically low-performing schools. Research related to school turnaround has relied substantially upon case studies. These case studies often focus on successful turnarounds and report immediate outcomes, failing to provide information about the sustainability of the results. In addition, schools with equally dramatic declining academic performance garner little attention from educators, policy makers, and researchers. This study ...
Tópico(s): Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
2012 - Routledge | Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR)
The rescue and revitalization of provides a benchmarking opportunity for how business leaders can help meet the challenge of renewing our cities. This article addresses four questions: What is the role of business leaders in urban revitalization? How can business leaders organize themselves effectively for collective action? What are the key considerations in formulating a community development strategy? How can such a strategy be best implemented? These questions are examined by focusing on the ...
Tópico(s): Community Development and Social Impact
1998 - SAGE Publishing | California Management Review
This study explores network governance in education in China, using the phenomenon of school turnaround as a research window. Drawing on data collected from document analysis, observation, and interviews in Shanghai, this qualitative empirical study examines the complexity of interactions between schools, local governments, and third-party actors in school turnaround through network governance. The findings identify three network governance patterns – government-led, third-party-led, and school-led ...
Tópico(s): Public Policy and Administration Research
2022 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Educational Development
Mats Engwall, Gunnar Westling,
This article examines the process dynamics of a complex R&D project, which for a long period of time had suffered from little technical progress, then abruptly became highly structured and effective. The article examines the mechanisms behind this dramatic turnaround and discusses its implications for research and practice. Drawing on the dramaturgical concept of ‘peripety’ (‘moment of sudden change’), the article captures how the turnaround came about due to the emergence of the participants’ ...
Tópico(s): Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
2004 - SAGE Publishing | Organization Studies
Donald J. Peurach, Christine M. Neumerski,
Tópico(s): Educational Assessment and Improvement
2015 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Educational Change
This article presents a model which a community can use to offset the employment losses associated with the closure of a large employer. The model is particularly applicable to “company towns” and is based on the experience of a specific Swedish company town. The model requires cooperation between the company which plans to close the plant and the community which must arrange for alternative employment. Since successful cooperation leads to a restructuring of the local economy, the model is called ...
Tópico(s): Labor Movements and Unions
1995 - Elsevier BV | The Journal of Socio-Economics
Daniel L. Duke, Michael J. Salmonowicz,
This article examines the decisions made by one principal in her first year as a school turnaround specialist in a low-performing urban elementary school. Researchers focused on decisions related to the principal’s three high-priority concerns: (1) elimination of an ineffective instructional program; (2) creation of a culture of teacher accountability; and (3) development of an effective reading program. Forty-nine decisions were identified and organized into five categories—performance, policy, program, ...
Tópico(s): Educational Assessment and Improvement
2010 - SAGE Publishing | Educational Management Administration & Leadership
Tópico(s): Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control
2002 - De Gruyter | Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM)
Purpose: School district superintendents say politics is the number one factor limiting their performance, yet research provides limited guidance on navigating the political dynamics of district improvement. State takeovers and district-wide turnaround efforts tend to involve particularly heated and polarized debates. Massachusetts’ 2012 takeover of the Lawrence Public Schools provides a rare case of state takeover and district turnaround that both resulted in substantial early academic improvements ...
Tópico(s): School Choice and Performance
2018 - SAGE Publishing | Educational Administration Quarterly
This case is developed for use in a policy-centered course on systemic improvement in underperforming districts and schools. The narrative details the complexity that arose in the context of one such reform initiative, a framework for analyzing that complexity, and a set of leadership decisions that follow. Course instructors can use the case to: motivate students’ interest in district-driven systemic improvement, examine issues that often complicate such work, review emerging research on school ...
Tópico(s): Educational Assessment and Improvement
2010 - SAGE Publishing | Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership
Craig Peck, Ulrich C. Reitzug,
School “turnaround” has received significant attention recently in education literature and policy action, especially as a means to dramatically improve urban education. In current common education usage, “turnaround” refers to the rapid, significant improvement in the academic achievement of persistently low-achieving schools. Employing a conceptual framework informed by research regarding school reform history, the school leadership fashion cycle, and paradoxes in educational innovation and reform, ...
Tópico(s): Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
2013 - SAGE Publishing | Urban Education
Sarah L. Woulfin, Jennie Weiner,
Principals are positioned at the center of school improvement. In the United States, current turnaround reforms target the principalship as a key lever for change. This article uses institutional theory to explore the logics of turnaround leadership that steer principals and their work. Specifically, we draw on qualitative interview data from a phenomenological study of a cohort of aspiring turnaround principals in a northeastern state to explain how educators invoked and enacted four logics of ...
Tópico(s): Public Policy and Administration Research
2017 - SAGE Publishing | Education and Urban Society
Ronald Contino, Robert M. Lorusso,
How does a manager, recently given the charge of a public agency on the threshold of collapse, restore fiscal and operational health to that agency? This was the question confronting the new director of fleet maintenance and repair in New York City's Department of Sanitation in January of 1979. The answer, in part, has been to introduce a new set of public management initiatives which dramatically changes the way a public organization is traditionally managed. These initiatives, involving every ...
Tópico(s): Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
1982 - Wiley | Public Administration Review
While network governance in education has been widely discussed in the literature, research focusing on the behaviours of and interactions between pluralist actors is rare, and the power exercised by China's local governments in network governance is under-researched. This study uses school turnaround, a networking process that involves multiple actors, as a research window to explore the complexity of local governments' role in network governance. With empirical data from document analysis, observation, ...
Tópico(s): Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism
2020 - Taylor & Francis | Asia Pacific Journal of Education
Public sector performance is currently a significant issue for management practice and policy, and especially the turnaround of those organizations delivering less than acceptable results. Theories of organizational failure and turnaround derive largely from the business sector and require adaptation to the public service. The performance of public organizations is more complex to measure, is related to institutional norms, and the idea of ‘failure’ is problematic. Empirical findings from a real‐ ...
Tópico(s): Accounting and Organizational Management
2005 - Wiley | British Journal of Management
Each laboratory should determine the type of errors and turnaround time (TAT), especially in the preanalytical phase to report quality and timeliness of the test results. The current study aimed at investigating the common causes of preanalytical errors in biochemistry and hematology laboratories and evaluating the preanalytical TAT for outpatient samples.Data of rejected samples in the laboratory information system from September 2014 to September 2015 were retrospectively reviewed. Also, the preanalytical ...
Tópico(s): Reliability and Agreement in Measurement
2018 - | Iranian journal of pathology
David A. Turner, Philip Whiteman,
Abstract This paper sets out the findings of a three-year research investigation into the experiences of 15 case study local authorities in turning around poor performance. The 'poor' rating was determined through Comprehensive Performance Assessment (CPA). In some authorities the CPA score itself proved a sufficient trigger for turnaround to begin. In others the picture is more complex. Turnaround is variable in terms of speed, intensity and the success of the mechanisms employed. Success, though ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare innovation and challenges
2005 - Taylor & Francis | Local Government Studies
Leading school turnaround has been conceptualized as a school-level issue focused on immediate change. There has been little consideration about how district leaders change systems to sustain school turnaround successes. This case study research conducted through the lens of Change Theory explores the leadership struggles of one mid-sized urban district’s effort to build on its successful launch of a school turnaround initiative for a subset of underperforming schools. The results suggest that the ...
Tópico(s): Public Policy and Administration Research
2020 - SAGE Publishing | Urban Education
Coby V. Meyers, Jonathan Sadler,
School turnaround initiatives have prioritized the school principal as the change lever. Little overall consideration about the critical role district leadership plays. In this study, we analyze the turnaround launch and, improvement plans of school district leaders participating in a university, turnaround program. We find that district leaders identify certain systems, levers as more significant challenges than other ones, but their espoused, ways to address these challenges are disparate if determined ...
Tópico(s): Public Policy and Administration Research
2018 - SAGE Publishing | NASSP Bulletin
Mfanimpela Zacharia Mhlanga, Elias Munapo, Nehemiah Mavetera,
Engen Refinery plant is part of the Engen Petroleum Limited, with operations in Southern Africa. The plant is situated in KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa and it operates 24 hours a day, every day, including weekends. Although Engen operates 24 hours 7 days a week, the plant has to be shut down occasionally for maintenance. These shutdown periods are also used as an opportunity to implement most projects, especially those that could not be implemented during the normal run of the plant. In ...
Tópico(s): Outsourcing and Supply Chain Management
2016 - Business Perspectives | Investment Management and Financial Innovations
Tina Trujillo, Michelle Renée,
Background In 2009, the Obama Administration announced its intention to rapidly “turn around” 5,000 of the nation's lowest-performing schools. To do so, it relied on the School Improvement Grant (SIG) program to provide temporary funding for states and schools, and to mandate drastic, school-level reforms. Most of these reforms require massive administrative and teacher layoffs, especially under the “turnaround option.”In the public debate about the SIG program, reforms such as turnarounds have been ...
Tópico(s): Educational Assessment and Improvement
2015 - SAGE Publishing | Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education
Steven J. Steindel, David A. Novis,
Abstract Objectives.—To determine the causes of excessive test turnaround time (TAT) and to identify methods of improvement by studying reasons for those tests reported in excess of 70 minutes from the time the test was ordered (ie, outliers). Design.—Self-directed data-gathering of stat outlier TAT events from intensive care units and emergency departments, with descriptive parameters associated with each event and additional descriptive parameters associated with the participant. Participants.—Laboratories ...
Tópico(s): Reliability and Agreement in Measurement
1999 - American Medical Association | Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Although automation is widely used in clinical chemistry, hematology and immunology laboratories, the microbiology laboratory has been slow to adopt automation. Somemay criticise microbiologists as being overly conservative and this may seem justified when we recognise that many of the fundamental technologies used in today’s laboratories have existed for more than 100 years (e.g. petri dishes of culture media, biochemical tests for organism identification,microscope for observing organisms on glass ...
Tópico(s): Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
2014 - CSIRO Publishing | Microbiology Australia
Personnel PsychologyVolume 59, Issue 4 p. 967-970 Surviving Transformation: Lessons from GM's Surprising Turnaround First published: 10 November 2006 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2006.00060_5.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept ...
Tópico(s): Ethics in Business and Education
2006 - Wiley | Personnel Psychology