Education

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Minnesota's Drew Wolitarsky (82) lands in the end zone after a catch for a touchdown against Penn State during the first half of an NCAA college football game in State College, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Chris Knight)

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Penn State's Saquon Barkley (26) is mobbed by teammates after scoring the winning touchdown against Minnesota in overtime of an NCAA college football game in State College, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Chris Knight)

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ADVANCE FOR SATURDAY OCT. 1 AND THEREAFTER - JIn an Aug. 18, 2016 photo, Pennsbury officials, from left, Dr. Donna Dunar, Assistant Superintendent, Gary McManus, Math Supervisor K-12, and Kim Walter, Math Specialist, Quarry Hill Elementary, pose with products from their new math program they will use, Everyday Mathematics from McGraw Hill, at the Pennsbury administration offices, in Falls Township, Pa. The Pennsbury School District invested almost $620,000 earlier this year in new textbooks and online teaching tools that are aligned with the state's goals and expectations for what students should be able to do at each grade level in math, English language arts and other core subjects in K-12 public schools. (Joan Hellyer/Bucks County Courier Times via AP)

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Bilingual teacher Olivia Mendez works with students in her second grade class at Shands Elementary on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2016, in Mesquite, Texas. The number of limited-English speakers in the state has grown by nearly 50 percent in the last decade with about 1 in 5 students struggling with the language. But in that same time, Texas had a dramatic 20 percent drop in the number of educators working in bilingual and ESL classes. (Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

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Dr. Paige Patterson is the president at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Image courtesy of Paige Patterson

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Alonso High School custodian Matt Stuewe hangs the school's remaining Jose Fernandez jersey after the other was stolen, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016 in Tampa, Fla. Officials in Tampa said that a jersey worn by Fernandez in high school was missing following a candlelight vigil at his former high school. Officials at Alonso High School filed a police report and authorities are asking whoever took the jersey to return it.(Anastasia Dawson/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

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FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2012 file photo, parents of Chicago public school students, Carmen Brownlee, left, and, Latonya Williams, right, join striking CPS teachers on the picket line outside a School in Chicago. Teachers in the country's third-largest city have cranked up the heat in contract talks, threatening to go on strike in less than two weeks. The Chicago Teachers Union and school district officials are clashing over cost-of-living raises, pension contributions and health care costs in negotiations that have stretched into a second year. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

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In this Sept. 20,2016 file photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) **FILE**

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A group of sheriff's deputies who typically provide volunteer security detail for football games at a Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, high school have decided to boycott the school after players and cheerleaders knelt during the national anthem last week.

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Frank Harvey, a senior at Manville High School in New Jersey, said he was suspended after refusing to undergo a psychological exam over an anti-gun control school project that was found on his thumb drive. (News 12 New Jersey)

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The University of Michigan will implement a new policy that allows students to decide the personal pronoun faculty and staff use to address them. (Facebook, University of Michigan)

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In this Sept. 22, 2016 photo, the remains of a more than 3 century-old tree located on Michigan State University's campus are shown, in East Lansing, Mich. The tree stood tall nearly 200 years before the university welcomed its first students. (RJ Wolcott /Lansing State Journal via AP)

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Tristan Rettke, a freshman student at East Tennessee State University, was arrested and suspended after he donned a gorilla mask and started handing out bananas at a Black Lives Matter rally on campus. (WJHL)

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Bethesda-Chase High School's Student Government Association voted to create a genderless homecoming court. Students will now nominate "Homecoming Royalty" instead of a "King" and "Queen." (WUSA9 screenshot)

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In this Sept. 20, 2016 photo, Michaela Wieties, poses in her home in Racine, Wis. Wieties, a Union Grove High School senior was one of three students from across the country to win a scholarship to the prestigious Lincoln Forum Symposium in Gettysburg, Pa., in November. Wieties has loved Lincoln and Civil War history for years. (Mark Feldmann/The Journal Times via AP)

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Jacob Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. (Image: Screen grab from http://campuspress.yale.edu/jasonstanley/)

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In this Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 photo, Superintendent Jie Zhang poses in a chapel at the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y. While Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, talks tough about dealing with China, his old military prep school is building bridges to that country. The New York Military Academy began classes this fall with new Chinese backing and a former New York City high school principal originally from China in charge. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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In this Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016 photo, a cadets walk out of the academic building at the New York Military Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y. While Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, talks tough about dealing with China, his old military prep school is building bridges to that country. The New York Military Academy began classes this fall with new Chinese backing and a former New York City high school principal originally from China in charge. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

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Former refugee Adhal Awan of the South Sudan, attends a ceremony as The University of Utah’s College of Social Work in Salt Lake City celebrates the launch of the Center for Research on Migration & Refugee Integration on Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2016. (Scott G Winterton/Deseret News via AP)