We can either wait for the stars to align and for strong leadership to right the ship OR allow agile non-profits, progressive school boards and social ventures to collaborate and push the system in the right direction.
Private schools and charter schools often are more agile in their ability to experiment and replicate high-quality schools in urban neighborhoods.
All of these imperatives are part of the modern refrain of agile development and its associated schools of innovation (from the Lean Startup by Eric Ries to Google Ventures Design Sprintt).
Ideally, large biopharmas would be schooled by small agile upstarts, who might be willing to pursue a greater range of approaches, and consider a wider range of potential indications.
A school system is not an agile, nimble organization where if you can just hire the right people and start the right programs, you can turn things around quickly.
While the World Cup was getting under way, I met an old school friend, now an agile sporting journalist, in the World Cup Press Headquarters at the Royal Garden Hotel, a virtual Babel of languages and enthusiasms.
HUDSON SCHOOL "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," by Steve Martin.
According to the boy's mother, these classes played a positive effect on Rufat's general conditions - he has become more active, agile and even improved scores at the school.
Tall, agile, pipe-smoking and bespectacled, he could have passed for a public school beak, which had much to do with the way he was perceived.
But advocates for the current system argue that mayoral control has allowed for agile decision-making and an unusual level of continuity of leadership in the school system.
But who can say they know him, really?" Dzhokhar, nineteen, had graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, where he was a locally celebrated wrestler, described as slight, agile, and a little shy.
