At the family home on Thursday, Valjorefa's backpack was drying on a clothing line and some crayons and a notebook with her school work were on the ground.
There is an MBE for dinner lady Jeanette Orrey, who inspired celebrity chef Jamie Oliver's campaign for healthier school meals through her own work at St Peter's Primary School in East Bridgford near Nottingham.
On top of her ever-busy school work and purposeful extracurriculars, she applied a substantial amount of focused time and energy to prepare her early application.
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She decided to go to business school because her work in the non-profit sector after she graduated from Stanford demonstrated to her that these organizations had the potential to make much more effective use of their resources.
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One head teacher told him she was passionate about her work in a school in a deprived area but feared that it would be "career suicide" for her to remain there.
Jan, who takes no money for her work with the school, believes the education her students receive will benefit not only future generations of Afghan women but the country as a whole.
His mother, Karina, says Callum's school has phoned her at work ten times to ask her to come and take her son home - often asking that he does not return for several days.
Recently, her name and her work for Iraq were reinstated in the nationwide school syllabus.
My mother was able to raise two kids by herself because she was also able to get grants and loans to work her way through school.
He watched his own grandmother, a woman with a high school education, work her way up to become a Vice President at a little community bank.
She said she never saw her school books again, was forced to work night and day, seven days a week, and was given a new name, Frances.
She certainly has a wonderful life story, born to a Puerto Rican family, growing up in public housing projects and everything she did to work her way through law school.
Approximately 40 high school seniors started the Cisco program at her school, but only 20 finished because the work was difficult, Voss says.
Abdul is now a fawning admirer of his wife's work and accompanies her, sometimes with their school-going children in tow.
Though she eventually sold the gym to go back to school, she continues to work out and maintain her healthy weight.
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Because her school is so small, Rowan had the time and flexibility to work with Taylor.
Her life became long days at work, long hours in night school, and grueling hours buried in books.
The Wizard of Lies is a gripping well-told tale and to see her mind work in response to his correspondence was like a graduate school degree in reporting.
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Example: A business school graduate starts her career at a bank, then goes to work for a museum and winds up teaching nonprofit finance courses at a business school.
But Winfrey, rather than chalk up her school as a costly life lesson, quietly redoubled her efforts to make it work.
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Mera dropped out of school at age 11 to work as a seamstress, then helped her then-husband make dressing gowns and lingerie in their home.
Whitman said Sunday on NBC's "Meet The Press" that her decision to run will depend on whether she can complete work on her three top priorities -- property tax relief, school reform and land preservation -- in the time she has remaining in her second term as governor.
No slouch academically, Harrison has degrees in International Relations and Conflict Resolution from Syracuse University, walking away from an opportunity fresh out of school to work with the Carter Center (President Carter even created a division for her).
"A lot of families can't afford food and need food stamps and health care, even just child care so they can finish school or go to work, " said McGrath, who volunteers with children at her local Police Athletic League.
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When she was 13, with food scarce and every child's hands needed to work the family plot, her mother sold the family cow to pay for Wambugu's boarding school 10 miles away.
When she was 13, with food scarce and every child's hands needed to work the family plot, her mother sold the family cow to pay for Wambugu's boarding school 16 kilometers away.
When Ms. Moots, who aspires to be an archaeologist, met her boyfriend at the coffee shop after 8 p.m. on a Friday to work on graduate-school applications, she was ushered out, she says, even though the place was almost empty.
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Principal Terry Pearsall-Hargett, with 22 years in the Army under her belt, brought in veteran teachers from her old school and hired several from Teach for America, a Peace Corps-like nonprofit that recruits college students to work in troubled schools.
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