But access to expensive lessons and materials can be scant for kids not born into privilege.
Evidence of the use of data to make midcourse corrections or share lessons across the ECD network was scant.
Mr. Obama and the Republican leaders have shown scant evidence that they've absorbed any of the lessons that are now standard fare in the nation's leading law and business schools.
This solace is severely tempered, of course, by the fact that there is scant evidence that the liberal left is any position to learn the lessons from its collapse and present a clear and desirable alternative.
What is more difficult to accept, or indeed understand, is the scant effort made by the retreating forces of New Labour to learn the lessons from defeat so that we can begin to rebuild.
There is scant real-time evidence of the impact of the crisis on communities in the region, but lessons from past events, survey results and indications from specially commissioned economic modeling have been given at a four day workshop.
There may be a lesson in that: New administrations in the region, no matter their political leanings, have scant leeway to radically change economic policy.
