And despite some success stories, it is still unclear which reforms work, explains Tim Knowles of the University of Chicago.But even if there were unlimited, brilliant teachers and gold-plated reforms, violence can shatter progress.
Out of the five attacks the system sustained, two shattered all progress, and two had almost no effect.
Working women unite -- the June report on women's earnings, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this month, doesn't indicate any earth-shattering progress in the gender wage gap debate.
Administration officials, nervous about President Bush's election chances shattering, believe we must show progress by starting to pull out.
Senator McCain, nervous about both Army morale and Iraq shattering, believes we must get in deeper to make progress.
Diplomatic progress was shattered in 2008 when militants based in Pakistan mounted terrorist attacks in Mumbai that killed at least 163 people.
She didn't utter any human sounds, but I could chart her progress around their room by imagining the sources of wood snapping, glass shattering, and plaster crumbling.
Recent progress in cloning causal genes involving major phenotypic change within natural variation, such as seed shattering, seed size and growth habit, has further elucidated the rice domestication process.
Then glass started shattering".
