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Members of the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets take selfies as they are features on big screen at at Reed Arena in College Station, Texas on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015, during the first half of a NCAA college basketball game between Georgia and Texas A&M. Georgia won 62-53. (AP Photo/College Station Eagle, Sam Craft)
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Parents are angry after a "Fifty Shades of Grey" word search puzzle was handed out at a Pennsylvania middle school. (Image: WTAE Action News 4, ABC Pittsburgh screenshot)
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In this Jan. 21, 2015 photo, eighth-grade student Daniel Walker, 13, practices his typing during class at Jane Addams Middle School in Bolingbrook Ill. The Valley View School District is moving the teaching of typing/keyboarding from the high school to the middle school level. (AP Photo/The Herald-News, Lathan Goumas)
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My plan lowers the cost of community college to zero. (Illustration by Gary Varvel for Creators Syndicate)
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Neil Diamond performed for the first time in his hometown in Brooklyn last year, at his alma mater Erasmus Hall High School, to introduce his latest album, "Melody Road." He says he isn't wasting precious time with his singing and songwriting talents. (Associated Press)
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As cast member fit him with a bra adorned with stuffed animals, actor Chris Pratt looks toward the crowd during a roast at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, Pratt, star of the film "Guardians of the Galaxy", was honored as "Man of the Year" by the Hasty Pudding Theatricals at Harvard University. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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Actor Chris Pratt gets ready to break a board with his head during a roast at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **
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Marti Kashuba holds up a sign outside of St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. The Roman Catholic archbishop of San Francisco is getting pushback from some parents, students and teachers at parochial schools after unveiling faculty handbook language calling on teachers to lead their public and professional lives consistently with church teachings on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, abortion, birth control and other behaviors he describes as evil. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone walks through a gate to Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory school after students, teachers and supporters gathered for a vigil outside of St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015. The Roman Catholic archbishop is getting pushback from some parents, students and teachers at parochial schools after unveiling faculty handbook language calling on Catholic teachers to lead their professional lives consistently with church teachings on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, abortion and birth control. Non-Catholic teachers are asked not to publicly undermine the teachings. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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President Barack Obama answers audience questions at Ivy Tech Community College, Friday, Feb. 6, 2015, in Indianapolis. Obama is promoting his budget proposal to make two years of community college free. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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5. RHODE ISLAND $2.139/GALLON - A Brown University flag bearer, left, passes through the Van Wickle Gates, behind, during commencement ceremonies, Sunday, May 25, 2014, in Providence, R.I. More than 2,000 students are expected to receive degrees during Brown University’s graduation. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
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#10. CONNECTICUT $2.297/GALLON - Future graduates line up for commencement on campus of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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Male and female Ranger Training Assessment Course students listen to instruction at the Ranger Training Course Assessment at Fort Benning, Georgia, Jan. 24, 2015. (Image: U.S. Army)
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The discipline of a private loan market may encourage more students to gear their academic choices toward marketable skills. (Associated Press/File)
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In this Sept. 25, 2014, file photo, high school students Adam Paterson, 15, front left, and Jordi Legasse, 17, front right, pull rocks and unwanted materials from a conveyor belt moving potatoes into a storage facility in Mapleton, Maine. Ostracized by health officials for several years, the white potato is back in favor. The prestigious Institute of Medicine says people aren’t getting enough starchy vegetables or potassium and fiber, nutrients that are plentiful in potatoes. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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A $5 million trademark infringement suit against Liberty University may hinge on whether the school can use a hologram of its late founder, the Rev. Jerry L. Falwell Sr., at a proposed center honoring the late televangelist. Jerry Falwell Jr., a trustee of the Falwell Family Trust, sued the nation’s largest Christian university late last month alleging the school is improperly using “intellectual property” and a trademark assigned to the trust when the elder Falwell died in 2007. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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A Boston Globe article about former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, that in part details his high school days, has spun off raucous headlines from other news organizations which frame him as a troubled, pot-smoking bully during his time at Phillips Academy. (Associated Press)
