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Other critics contend that Toyota may be imposing a fix without fully understanding the problem. "For years, Toyota Motor Corporation has dismissed complaints of sudden acceleration as being the driver's fault," says David Wright, a Redlands, Calif., attorney, who recently filed a class-action lawsuit against Toyota. "But neither driver error nor floor mats can explain away many other frightening instances of runaway Toyotas. Until the company acknowledges the real problem and fixes it, we worry that other preventable injuries and deaths will occur," Wright says. He contends that errant electrical signals may be triggering some of the sudden...
Like a family that has finally hit the lottery after years of hard living, the Department of Education is dropping money all over the place. Following two decades of relative poverty, its latest stimulus-supplemented gambit is to devote billions to try to fix the nation's very worst schools. After having directed almost $50 billion toward saving teacher jobs and $4 billion toward its Race to the Top program, in which states vie for reform-oriented funding, the department just made available applications for districts to compete for $3.5 billion earmarked for turning around failing schools. As part...
While it's difficult to argue with the larger philosophical goal -let's fix the U.S.'s dropout factories - some critics say the evidence of success in turnaround strategies just isn't there. Worse, it isn't even that clear what makes a turnaround a turnaround. "There's no agreement on how bad a school has to be in order to qualify," says Andy Smarick, a former deputy assistant education secretary who is a visiting fellow at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education-reform think tank. "There's no agreement on how long it has to sustain that level...
...doesn’t have forever to fix itself,” he said. “The papers tell us that the board concluded that Henderson was a good man, but he was not willing to move fast enough transforming G.M. into a 21st century company...
...Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announced it was seeking $689 million in 2010 to address the country's problems. OCHA said that more than 3.6 million Somalis - more than a third of the population - need emergency help. Benadir medical school was supposed to help fix Somalia's all but nonexistent health system. Its motto is "Towards a better future." Today, that future was ripped apart...