After spending two very difficult years in Chicago trying to make ends meet with no savings, stable jobs or traditional education to lean on, my family moved to California to live near my dad's sister.
Catastrophic closures have been avoided, even in higher education's leanest years.
In addition to supporting its chapters' social and education events, the Lean In organization should seize the opportunity to mobilize its constituents to advocate for meaningful government legislation that can help women in the workplace.
While education policy has leaned in recent decades toward giving students work skills, Mr. Shorris's idea was to teach what he considered the ultimate skills: reflection and critical thinking, as taught by the humanities.
The solutions are obvious, but they are hard: more reforms, a better education system, a leaner public sector.
"If you will, we are looking to develop a lean, mean education machine".
But in the same way we consider other products or activities that may be harmful to kids – such as learning to ride a bike or bringing peanut-butter sandwiches to school – we should lean towards education and prevention, not legislation.
Such seamless progress was a tribute to the silent movies that had been Lean's education in cinema, and they confirm what Michael Powell wrote of Lean the editor: "He always cuts on the silent head of a Moviola, because he doesn't want to be distracted by what the actors are saying.
As finalists, the Nixie team has already received $50,000 in funding, along with Lean Startup education from UC Berkeley.
