They inspire more young people to graduate from high school, pursue higher degrees and ultimately get excellent jobs.
The pedigree, and Mr. Zimmermann's deft touch with a baguette, made him such an attraction that the Loop school pursued him for four years.
But then she went to school, pursued a career in information technology, moved to the United States, married and became a mother.
The episode, Ms. Bensouda said in an interview, helped form her decision to attend law school, pursue a career as a justice minister in Gambia and eventually become a war-crimes prosecutor.
And I'm back in school pursuing a degree in music with a minor in film-making.
Fast forward several years, and she ultimately put herself through both undergraduate and graduate school, pursuing her life's passion: psychology.
Instead of resigning herself to her fate, she got up and went to school, pursued her education, even sought a university degree right there in the camp.
Danielle is now back in school pursuing a dual master's degree at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and Syracuse University, and her thesis will examine the social and psychological impacts of community gardening on the refugee gardeners.
With her cohort supporting her, Candace has secured a job and been promoted, she's in school pursuing her degree in health and human services while her husband, Mario, is training to be a nurse.
But most schools pursue knowledge at the expense of character development and skills development.
In the burgeoning and mostly unsupervised charter school sector, some schools pursue strictly private purposes with little or no public accountability.
