Education

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Marvel is changing the sexuality of its character Iceman after decades as a straight man. (Image: Marvel Comics)

Alice Dreger, a Northwestern University ethicist and author, sent out a long series of critical tweets last week as she attended her son's high school sex-education class on abstinence. (Twitter/@AliceDreger)

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Clermont Northeastern Middle School in Batavia, Ohio, is facing national backlash after admitting to purposely editing out the word "feminist" from a 13-year-old's T-shirt in the eighth grade class portrait. (Fox 19)

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ROTC cadets participate in a "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" event held at Temple University on April 1, 2015. (Image: Temple University Army ROTC)

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Illustration on failed civics education in the nation's schools by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Students walk to and from classes on the campus of the University of Colorado, in Boulder, Colo., Monday April 20, 2015. The University of Colorado is open to the public on this 4/20 marijuana holiday for the first time in three years. The university has blocked public access in recent years in an effort to snuff mass smokeouts to mark the unofficial marijuana celebration. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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This March 28, 2015 photo provided by Kathty Lovetere shows Kaitlin McCarthy and Matty Marcone, students at Canton High School in Canton, Mass., at the school’s junior prom. Kaitlin invited Matty, who has special needs, to be her date and they were crowned prom king and queen. Prom culture has changed so that some teens are now using the big night as a platform for social change and as an opportunity to be inclusive rather than exclusive. (Kathy Lovetere via AP)

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This 2014 photo provided by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Canada, shows outfits worn to an interracial prom organized by Mareshia Rucker and other students from Wilcox County High School in Rochelle, Ga. Local families had previously organized separate proms for black and white students. The museum honored Rucker for using her prom as a vehicle for social change, and the dress and other artifacts from the prom are now on display at the museum. (Jessica Sigurdson/CMHR via AP)

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering have developed a long-distance eye scanner. (Image: CNN screenshot)

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In this Thursday, March 12, 2015, photo, a first-grader learns keyboarding skills at Bayview Elementary School in San Pablo, Calif. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

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Iranian university students chant slogans in an anti-Saudi protest in front of the U.N. office in Tehran. (AP Photo/File)

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Lessons: Before the Central African Republic war, "Our kids could play and go to school together without differentiating who's a Muslim or Christian kid," a refugee said. (Associated Press)

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FILE photo — Jonathan Stacks, campaign manager for the Illinois Campaign for Responsible Sex Education, speaks to reporters during a news conference at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Wednesday, May 2, 2007. Mr. Stacks released a report that examines sex-education curricula used in classrooms throughout the state. The report comes at a time when Congress and the Illinois General Assembly are debating approval of new state and federal tax dollars for abstinence-only programs. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

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Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, recommends repealing and replacing Obamacare, investing more in the military and modernizing the education system. (Associated Press)

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A bill under consideration of the Alaska Senate would let parents opt students out of certain requirements, including testing, and require parental consent for students to participate in sex education. (AP Photo/Ty Wright)

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, accompanied by Kirkwood Community College President Mick Starcevich, right, participates in a roundtable with educators and students at the Kirkwood Community College's Jones County Regional Center, Tuesday, April 14, 2015, in Monticello, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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FILE - In this May 8, 1991, file photo, Gordon Schaber poses for a photo in his south Sacramento, Calif., home. Schaber was the Dean of the McGeorge School of Law. The Irish Catholic boy who came of age in Sacramento after World War II is an unlikely candidate to be the author of the Supreme Court’s major gay rights rulings. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s friendship with Schaber began in the mid-1960s when Schaber recruited the young lawyer to teach at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. Schaber, who served as the school’s dean for 34 years, was in the process of transforming McGeorge from an unaccredited night school to a respected institution that now is a part of Pacific University.(Genaro Molina/Sacramento Bee via AP)

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Students at Clarion University of Pennsylvania destroyed a pro-life display on campus that featured dozens of white crosses commemorating lives lost to abortion. (Students for Life)

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Domanik Green, an eighth-grader at at Paul R. Smith Middle School, was arrested in Pasco County on cybercrime charges last week after he gained unauthorized access to his teacher's computer and changed the desktop image to a photo of two men kissing. (WTSP-TV)