If it is true that higher test scores at Jefferson High's Student Empowerment Academy have "captivated school board members," then the board is as gullible as The Times.
Raised in Shady Side, Leatherbury began handicapping horses while in grade school, captivated by the risks and percentages of the game.
In her 2011 essay I Once Was Miss America, Gay writes of this series that, "to pre-teen and teenage girls, the books were the most familiar and resonant expressions of our angst and our fondest wishes for ourselves, the girls we wanted to become", capturing the essence of what were schlocky, yet somehow wildly captivating, tales of high-school drama.
Dermont may be working within comfortably familiar outlines, but her fusion of the boating novel and the boarding school novel is captivating and inspired.
Given that Ohtani had always been far and away the best baseball player at every stage of his career -- captivating Major League scouts in high school and blowing away his teammates as a professional in Japan -- one would expect Ohtani to carry himself with the level of swagger often seen in superstar athletes, major celebrities, political leaders and captains of industry.
What is it about the aura of the old school that so captivates the public imagination?
It is the captivating work of children from Atkinson school, Bataka, in Dominica.
He graduated from high school during the Sonics' captivating run to the N.B.A. finals in 1996, when they lost to Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls in six games.
The business of a local school board is rarely captivating, but the panel's monthly meetings, at 6 p.m. one Monday a month, are an exercise in impotence.
The site started as a school project, but soon captivated the pair as they looked into it deeper.
Throughout my high school years, I was always captivated by the fashion industry.
