Education

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Iran's Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Three people were shot and killed Saturday night in Southeast, as the District endures a bloody start to August. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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In this Nov. 18, 2014 photo, Gerri Estopinal helps her son, Aydon Vetter, 6, with homework after school at their living space inside Mary Ellen's Hearth, a homeless shelter for women with children, in Montgomery, Ala. There were an estimated 59,349 homeless children in the state during 2012-2013 school year, a number partly responsible for Alabama ranking 50th in the nation in child homelessness, according to the National Center on Family Homelessness. (AP Photo/The Montgomery Advertiser, Albert Cesare) NO SALES

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A study involving the Los Angeles LGBT Center finds that gay canvassers could influence some conservative voters to support gay marriage.

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Lena Dunham's publisher, Random House, said Tuesday saying that the man identified as the rapist "Barry" in her book was not "Barry One," the former Oberlin College classmate who matched some of her description.

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FILE - First lady Michelle Obama visits the cafeteria as she has lunch with school children at Parklawn elementary school in Alexandria, Va., in this Jan., 25, 2012 file photo. A massive year-end spending bill released Tuesday Dec. 9, 2014doesn’t allow schools to opt out of healthier school meal standards championed by first lady Michelle Obama, as House Republicans had sought. But it would ease standards that require more whole grains in school foods. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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VCU coach Shaka Smart been the subject of rumors for hirings at blue blood college programs for several years. (Associated Press Photographs)

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Regardless of religious beliefs, there are many things we can all learn from Moses and this incredible story.

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National Edition News cover for December 6, 2014 - Rolling Stone backs off on explosive U.Va. rape story claims: FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, file photo, University of Virginia students walk to campus past the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Rolling Stone is casting doubt on the account it published of a young woman who says she was gang-raped at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity party at the school, saying there now appear to be discrepancies in the student's account. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

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University of Virginia students walk to campus past the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Rolling Stone is casting doubt on the account it published of a young woman who says she was gang-raped at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity party at the school, saying there now appear to be discrepancies in the student's account. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) **FILE**

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FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, file photo, University of Virginia students walk to campus past the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. Rolling Stone is casting doubt on the account it published of a young woman who says she was gang-raped at a Phi Kappa Psi fraternity party at the school, saying there now appear to be discrepancies in the student's account. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) **FILE**

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Nine years after Hurricane Katrina, charter schools are the new reality of public education in New Orleans. The vast majority of public school students will be attending a charter school established by a state-run school district created in the wake of the storm. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)