The answer they came up with was to make peace with the teachers unions that had been demonized by the previous administration and with the teachers that had been so badly 44 demoralized and they invited them to join them in thinking through a reform program that would improve student performance.

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The company contends that competition would reduce the price and improve the performance of both engines over the life of the program.

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If that could be done, the pressure to be able to terminate them would be significant, and that could do a lot to improve school performance right there.

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The money management industry would have you believe that if you increase the amount of fees you pay them, performance will improve.

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Morgan, given time to improve its own performance and share price, would surely like to reunite the firm that banking laws tore apart in the 1930s.

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The CEO also told investors in January that he would entertain strategic options for the growth-challenged Discover unit if it did not improve its performance over the next two to three years.

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Many doubted that the government's flagship fund, designed to sustain the poorest pupils through school life, would improve their performance.

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