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The Guggenheim Museum is being accused of discrimination after it banned a Brooklyn high school for life because a handful of students behaved badly during a class outing. (Wikipedia)
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In this April 30, 2015, photo, Brian Olivas, 17, looks at his smartphone between classes at the Cuyama Valley High School in New Cuyama, Calif. (AP Photo/Christine Armario)
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In this April 30, 2015, photo, students line up to take part in new Common Core-aligned standardized tests at the Cuyama Valley High School in New Cuyama, Calif. (AP Photo/Christine Armario)
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In this April 30, 2015, photo, Leticia Fonseca, 16, left, and her twin sister, Sylvia Fonseca, right, work in the computer lab at Cuyama Valley High School after taking the new Common Core-aligned standardized tests in New Cuyama, Calif. (AP Photo/Christine Armario)
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Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson speaks during an event at Manchester Community College, Sunday, May 10, 2015, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
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Republican presidential candidate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson speaks during an event at Manchester Community College, Sunday, May 10, 2015, in Manchester, N.H. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Oxford University Rugby players are required to attend an anti-misogyny workshop before being able to take the field for this season's biggest tournament. (Image: Facebook, Oxford University Rugby)
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush delivers the commencement address at Liberty University in Williams Stadium at the school in Lynchburg, Va., Saturday, May 9, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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President Obama delivers the commencement address at Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown, S.D., on May 8, 2015. Obama visited South Dakota to promote his proposal to offer two years for free community college to qualified students. (Associated Press)
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Brandon Valle, an Army soldier and student at the University of Nebraska Omaha, is being hailed a hero after he helped take down a knife-wielding attacker at the college library. (WOWT)
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Stephen Colbert joins Yvette Nicole Brown and Damon Qualls, teacher at Alexander Elementary School in Greenville, South Carolina, to announce the funding of nearly 1,000 classroom projects from South Carolina on DonorsChoose.org. (PRNewsFoto/DonorsChoose.org)
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Mary Katherine Pursley, a special education teacher at Mt. Bethel Elementary, has been charged with cruelty to children after she allegedly put an autistic boy in a trash can and called him "Oscar the Grouch." (USA Today)
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In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 photo, Rebecca Allred, a second-year chemistry doctoral student at Yale, holds daughter Anna as her husband, Jacob, prepares dinner at home in New Haven, Conn. With two-thirds of all undergraduate degrees and 60 percent of master's degrees now going to women, many believe it's only a matter of time before that trend influences the upper echelons of the "STEM" fields - science, technology, engineering and math. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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Pope Francis, flanked by rector of the Pontifical North American College James F. Checchio, right, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, left, and President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Joseph Edward Kurtz, waves as he leaves Rome's Pontifical North American College on May 2, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Illustration on the Islamic Sharia roots of the Garland Texas terrorists by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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The Rutgers University Student Assembly has passed a bill that seeks to diversify the school's Caucasian "Scarlet Knight" mascot by adding black, Latino and third-gender mascot friends. (NJ.com screenshot)
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President Barack Obama speaks at Anacostia Library in Washington, Thursday, April 30, 2015, as he participates in a live "virtual field trip" with middle school students to announce two initiatives to improve education through digital connectivity. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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President Barack Obama smiles as he speaks at Anacostia Library in Washington, Thursday, April 30, 2015, as he participates in a live "virtual field trip" with middle school students to announce two initiatives to improve education through digital connectivity. The president announced Thursday that major book publishers will provide more than $250 million in free e-books to low-income students and that he is seeking commitments from local governments and schools nationwide to provide library cards to all students. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Former Baltimore Ravens NFL football player Ray Lewis talks to students at Frederick Douglass High School as Ravens C.J. Mosley looks on Thursday, April 30, 2015, in Baltimore. (Kenneth K. Lam/Baltimore Sun via AP)
