Perhaps rather than taking every element of the report into account, focusing on teacher pay could be a good leaping off point for future reforms, laying the groundwork for more exclusive top-tier education programs and other stepping stones to a more professional teaching labor pool.
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If I could offer only one piece of parenting advice for the new year, it would be to encourage parents to take the pressure off themselves to be good at everything at once.
If Brazil can keep that up, then it will be off to a good start.
The chairs with whom we spoke appear to be off to a good start.
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The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) seems to be off to a good start.
But some economists reckon that now might be a good time to come off the peg.
That would imply that the elements of the good life could be traded off against each other, which they deny.
After about four years of construction, the dream of creating an environmentally healthy community seemed to be off to a good start.
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Maybe Clive Woodward trusts his men to be good enough to blow Scotland off the pitch with the kind of rugby they have been playing all season.
In fact, long-term debtholders who have debt claims against the bad bank and equity claims against the good bank will be better off under this plan than if the bank were liquidated or continued to operate as one bank.
And as I said yesterday on my CooperCity blog, the positive outcome from all this could be that Brussels backs off from austerity, which would be a good thing.
Against Portugal, Sol Campbell and Tony Adams both performed well, as did Graham Le Saux and while David Beckham has experienced a dip in form, he's too good a player to be left off Glenn's list.
So Jane Doe, as you unravel the who am I now question, it might be a good idea to let yourself off the hook for landing here, right now, with a big question mark on your forehead.
It was simply your job to be an ethical, honest person, work your ass off, do some good for somebody else, and be happy you got to do it.
An absence of receptors should therefore be a good thing, because it closes off a shortcut to infection.
In some ways such a proposal mimics the voucher system, which now seems to be off the political agenda for good.
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West Indies have lost 17 of their last 24 Tests and only won two, but Lara hopes good times may not be too far off.
Indeed, the recent economic lift-off can be explained in good part by the competitiveness of French exports, caused in turn by the weakness of the new currency.
"I came here to secure an agreement that would be good for the UK and to head off those who sought to water down the changes we desperately need to make to this broken policy, " he said.
That would not be a good thing given the current sell-off in global equities.
When you consider the heap of good earnings reports, we should be off to the races.
Simply getting the tens of thousands of U.S. Postal Service vehicles that bring us our mail on Saturday off the road would be a good start for those concerned about carbon pollution.
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Two of Britain's largest grocers, Asda and Tesco, have moved heavily into clothing in the past few years, and acquiring J Sainsbury, the fourth-largest grocer, might be a good way for Green to fight them off.
There was some suspicion before kick-off that it would be a good time to play Everton, following the Toffees' FA Cup semi-final exploits at the weekend and with qualification to next season's Europa League all but guaranteed.
Software might be able to offer a good on-screen volume control option and it might be able to mitigate the off switch problem a little, but not enough to keep either issues from being extremely annoying.
Let's get off to a good start and be consistent over 46 games.
And yet, in a world where any PR is deemed to be good PR, can Target lose when scarcity sets off a firestorm?
The price seems high, but RVs are really expensive, and back-up power will just be one more option that Good Sam members will check off.
"There's a sociability factor in both where it's really about reputations within a community and to be able to show off, like being really good at basketball in your neighborhood, " says Lowood.
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