But Ms. Nash, who is from France, said French people were not predisposed to create their own programs, especially within the usually intractable public school system.
These have not had measurable success in the past and do not address the complexities of the present problem: a shrinking and inadequately educated workforce, coupled with a rapidly growing "nonproductive" older population, a persistent and intractable high school dropout rate, and the skyrocketing cost of higher education.
Crime was intractable; the schools were an urban nightmare; and the Mayor, David Dinkins, seemed to be out of touch or indifferent to the realities confronting the City.
His employees' commutes are longer, their fights with schools more intractable.
Consent on Campus examines why sexual assault on campus is such an intractable problem, and what schools and students can start to do to change that.
Since the 1960's, educators and local officials have known that Roosevelt's school district faced intractable problems as whites moved out, leaving behind a poorer, primarily minority population.
It was an ignominious end to a process that had already been marred by broken agreements and name-calling between the state government and New Jersey's most powerful teachers' union, the New Jersey Education Association, which Mr. Christie regularly criticizes as an intractable barrier to progress on school reform.
Ludwig calls the tutoring a safety net for those students, and a potential solution to what's been an intractable systemic challenge for urban school districts across the country.
One of the most innovative programs, developed during the late 1990's, is aimed at public education's most daunting and intractable problem -- its high schools.
The mayor's critics point out that many residents remain mired in stunning poverty, that not enough progress has been made reducing crime and that problems with the city's woeful public schools are as intractable as ever.
