Education

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FOR RELEASE MONDAY, MAY 26, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT. -This photo taken May 6, 2014, shows sixth-grader Camaya Ezeike working in her classroom at Young Women's College Preparatory Academy in Houston. The all girls school opened in 2011 with 6th and 9th grades and will graduate its first class in 2015. "I feel more comfortable than when I went to a coed school," Ezeike said. "There's not a lot of stress." (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Cody Duty)

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FOR RELEASE MONDAY, MAY 26, 2014, AT 12:01 A.M. CDT.- This photo taken May 8, 2014, shows seventh graders Daniel Aguilar, 13; Devin Sampson, 13; Henry Sanchez, 13, play a game on an iPad and relax after finishing the Stanford Achievement Test. The boys are students at Young Men's College Preparatory Academy, in Houston. The school is a college preparatory academy for young men. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Craig H. Hartley)

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North Pole Elementary School principal Mark Winford replaces an inflatable unicorn horn on his head after holding true to his promise of dressing like a unicorn and jumping into a pool of Jell-O to reward his students for reaching their reading points goal of 24,000 Thursday afternoon, May 22, 2014 in the school gymnasium in North Pole, Alaska. The reading points are based on comprehension quiz scores the kids took after reading books. The students read over 35,000 books, compiling 24,793 points. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Eric Engman)

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North Pole Elementary School principal Mark Winford holds true to his promise of dressing like a unicorn and jumping into a kiddie pool holding 140 gallons of gelatin to reward his students for reaching their reading points goal of 24,000 Thursday, afternoon, May 22, 2014 in the school gymnasium in North Pole, Alaska. The reading points are based on comprehension quiz scores the kids took after reading books. The students read over 35,000 books, compiling 24,793 points. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Eric Engman)

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North Pole Elementary School principal Mark Winford addresses the students as he holds true to his promise of dressing like a unicorn and jumping into a kiddie pool holding 140 gallons of gelatin to reward his students for reaching their reading points goal of 24,000 Thursday, afternoon, May 22, 2014 in the school gymnasium in North Pole, Alaska. The reading points are based on comprehension quiz scores the kids took after reading books. The students read over 35,000 books, compiling 24,793 points. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Eric Engman)

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North Pole Elementary School principal Mark Winford holds true to his promise of dressing like a unicorn and jumping into a kiddie pool holding 140 gallons of gelatin to reward his students for reaching their reading points goal of 24,000 Thursday, afternoon, May 22, 2014 in the school gymnasium in North Pole, Alaska. The reading points are based on comprehension quiz scores the kids took after reading books. The students read over 35,000 books, compiling 24,793 points. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Eric Engman)

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North Pole Elementary School principal Mark Winford holds true to his promise of dressing like a unicorn and jumping into a kiddie pool holding 140 gallons of gelatin to reward his students for reaching their reading points goal of 24,000 Thursday, afternoon, May 22, 2014 in the school gymnasium in North Pole, Alaska. The reading points are based on comprehension quiz scores the kids took after reading books. The students read over 35,000 books, compiling 24,793 points. (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Eric Engman)

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This May 21, 2014 photo provided by the North Dakota Petroleum Council shows a group of eight-graders from West Fargo’s Cheney Middle School standing behind North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem as he addresses the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, N.D. The students were at the conference to present projects addressing problems caused by or related to oil development in the state. (AP Photo/North Dakota Petroleum Council, Renae Mitchell)

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This May 21, 2014 photo provided by the North Dakota Petroleum Council shows a group of eight-graders from West Fargo’s Cheney Middle School standing behind North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem as he addresses the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, N.D. The students were at the conference to present projects addressing problems caused by or related to oil development in the state. (AP Photo/North Dakota Petroleum Council, Renae Mitchell)

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Todd Newsome, salmon biologist for the Yakama Nation, right, helps students from La Salle High School retrieve thousands of juvenile salmon May 22, 2014 from the school's fishery tanks in Union Gap, Wash. The salmon were released into Ahtanum Creek west of Yakima, Wash. (AP Photo/Yakima Herald-Republic, Mason Trinca)