Education

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"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

In this Feb. 15, 2016, file photo, Gatlinburg, Tenn., Detective Rodney Burns is sworn in as a witness before Judge Robert Philyaw during a preliminary hearing in Chattanooga for Ooltewah High School officials accused of failing to report a sexual assault. (Dan Henry/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, File)

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Officer First Class Jacai Colson (Prince George's County Police Department)

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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump vowed in the GOP debate Thursday night to end the Common Core federal education program. (Associated Press)

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks at campaign event at Hillside High School in Durham, N.C., Thursday, March 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Illustration on ways to hold universities accountable for the quality of education by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Taylor Force, 28, an Army veteran, was killed in a Palestinian stabbing attack in Tel Aviv. He was visiting Israel with a group of students as part of a Vanderbilt University graduate studies program. (Vanderbilt University)

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A deputy forcibly removes a student from her chair after she refused to leave her high school math class, in Columbia, South Carolina last fall. Tough-on-crime policies of the 1990s and the advent of mass shootings at schools led to more and more schools districts assigning full-time, armed officers to patrol the hallways and grounds. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on campus reactions to differing viewpoints by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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The Empowerment of Modern Technology Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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FILE- In this Aug. 23, 2007, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to a gender-neutral restroom at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)

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First lady Nancy Reagan joins school children during an anti-drug "Just Say No" rally on the grounds of the Washington Monument on May 12, 1988. (Associated Press)

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First Lady Nancy Reagan, center, watches an anti-drug musical entitled Just Say No performed by teenage students from the Chantilly, Virginia, High School Drama Department at the Cameron Elementary School, Thursday, Feb. 26, 1987, Alexandria, Va. The children are unidentified. (AP Photo/Scott Stewart)

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First Lady Nancy Reagan, center, waves to school children at the Fusuijin neighborhood committee, Saturday, April 28, 1984, Peking, China. Mrs. Reagan visited the kindergarten as part of a tour of the civil administrative unit in China. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma)

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The cast of "Schitt's Creek." (Dave Kapp)

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In this Feb. 29, 2016, file photo, teacher Kelly Gasior, left, and students, from left, Olivia Mashtaire, Ryan Lysek, Christian Vazquez and Tyler Lysek stand with a statue of a Buffalo that's been emblazoned with anti-bullying messages outside Lorraine Academy, Public School No. 72, in Buffalo, N.Y. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson)