The Trail Blazers might have missed their best chance at improvement before the trading deadline.
But dolcetto — thankfully, perhaps — has not been favored with similar efforts at improvement.
All the survey evidence indicates that levels of scientific literacy are highly resistant to efforts at improvement.
Howard tells me that he painstakingly removes clicks, hiss, and a cloudy patina of effects from earlier attempts at improvement.
IN New York State, middle schools have been the black hole that, so far, have resisted most efforts at improvement.
At P.S. 8, many teachers were wary after years of student attrition and few sustained attempts at improvement.
This picture is likely to be found in any secondary school in the country that is undergoing substantial attempts at improvement.
If you doubt the challenges, consider the 25 percent absenteeism at Marshall High School despite heroic efforts at improvement, as chronicled by The Wall Street Journal.
That leaves only the Wigan-London game to be filed under the best-avoided category, although maybe the Broncos hinted at improvement in giving the Catalans a game in Perpignan?
But unlike Detroit, whose product could theoretically be improved, the product of academics in the liberal arts is substantively debased by attempts at improvement, topicality and being in touch.
Aiming not at perfection but at improvement, accepting the vagaries of human nature as a premise that policy must accommodate, rather than wish away, meliorism forces a longer, more calibrated approach.
