(Even that number is only a conditional answer, since those committed students could still get word that their first-choice school has plucked them off its waiting list, leaving an opening for a student on the second-choice school's waiting list).
In June, after Andrés Alonso stepped down to lead the Baltimore public school system, Chancellor Joel I. Klein plucked Ms. Lyles from her post as a superintendent in Brooklyn to become the chief official in charge of curriculum and teaching policies this summer.
Secret agents don't just sign up straight out of high school, or get plucked from obscurity for their surveillance skills.
So in December, Google started YouTube for Schools, offering schools the ability to pluck only the videos they want, scrubbed of all comments and linked only to other related educational videos.
Three others are newcomers, plucked from school workshops and drama groups around London.
Brightest sparks at the sharp end of Songbun, the North's rigid social hierarchy, are plucked from school to train as elite hackers.
Set in Buenos Aires in 1976, at the outset of Argentina's dirty war, this generous, affecting novel is narrated by a ten-year-old boy suddenly plucked from school when his family goes into hiding.
The details of the Johnson case illuminated a world in which talented players are plucked from school and paid huge sums from an early age, often well before they break into the first team.
"Kamchatka," by Marcelo Figueras, translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne (Black Cat; $14.95) Set in Buenos Aires in 1976, at the outset of Argentina's dirty war, this generous, affecting novel is narrated by a ten-year-old boy suddenly plucked from school when his family goes into hiding.
He reserved his wrath, instead, for the largely untested Tom Tryon, the leading man in "The Cardinal," or for Jean Seberg, the seventeen-year-old high-school graduate he plucked out of small-town Iowa and made into a leading lady in "St.
