By contrast, Chinese, Salvadoran and Pakistani children arriving today often wind up in schools intent on teaching them what it means to be, well, Chinese, Salvadoran and Pakistani.
She attended the Madeira School, in McLean, Virginia, one of the few girls' schools intent on training young women for a career.
But for all their importance as refuges, the foundation said, they are rarely sites of academic rigor, creating a need for alternative schools intent on preparing dropouts not only for jobs, but for college as well.
"I was asking for some spare parts," said Mr. Jobs, who at the time was an eighth grader in a local junior high school intent on exploring the world of electronics.
9 P.M. (NBC LAWW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT After decades of sexual abuse are revealed with the help of a retired teacher (Elliott Gould, Detective Bensonn (Mariska Hargitay) goes after the headmaster (Charles Grodin) of a private school intent on protecting the institution rather than the victims.
He enrolled in a technical school, intent on earning a trade certificate.
If you missed that story, it is probably because that horrific event took place on December 13 in China and was quickly pushed out of the news cycle by another story of a man who entered an elementary school, intent on murder.
Lightspan officials were shocked to come across a copy of a survey, conducted in September by Boston consulting firm Parthenon Group on behalf of New American Schools, whose intent was to query schools about why they chose Lightspan.
But the classic best-friend bond — the two special pals who share secrets and exploits, who gravitate to each other on the playground and who head out the door together every day after school — signals potential trouble for school officials intent on discouraging anything that hints of exclusivity, in part because of concerns about cliques and bullying.
But to the Crimson summer school students, intent on getting their educations, the ultimate brand name is Harvard University.
Victoria Justice (Nickelodeon's "Victorious") is Wren, a high school student intent on New York University, if she can only survive her eccentric mom, Joy (a deft Chelsea Handler), who dates a guy too young for her, and Wren's prankish little brother, Albert (Jackson Nicoll, a devilish pantomime), who hasn't spoken since Dad died.
