Education

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College Board President David Coleman attends an announcement event, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, in Austin, Texas where College Board officials announced updates for the SAT college entrance exam, the first since 2005, needed to make the exam a better representative of what students study in high school and the skills they need to succeed in college and afterward. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

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In this Aug. 30, 2012, file photo, a tour group walks through the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Word of an August 2017 Justice Department inquiry into how race factors into admissions at Harvard University has left top-tier colleges bracing for scrutiny of practices that have boosted diversity levels to new highs. While they keep their selection formulas under wraps, Ivy League colleges defend race-conscious approaches that contributed to a 17 percent increase in nonwhite students over a recent five-year span. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas pauses while speaking about his time as a student at College of the Holy Cross after receiving an honorary degree from the college, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012, in Worcester, Mass. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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Hundreds crowd into the Fremont High School auditorium on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, in Fremont, Neb., to attend a public hearing on a plan that would outlaw renting housing to or hiring illegal immigrants in this city of 25,000. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

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In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012 photo, transitional kindergarten teacher Amy Weisberg helps a young student at Topanga Charter Elementary School in the Topanga district of Los Angeles. A California law requires public schools to add a grade level this fall designed to give the very youngest students a boost when they enroll in kindergarten, but charter schools say the law does not apply to them, pitting them against the state Department of Education. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Student prance and chant in a "fetus graveyard" in support of Planned Parenthood at the University of Texas-San Antonio, April 9, 2019. (Image: YouTube, Students for Life)

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FILE - In this April 11, 2017 file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is seen in the State Department Library of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington. How to spot a troubled school and how to help it? What does it mean to be a good student? What should report cards look like? These are some of the questions states are grappling with as they are working to submit blueprints of how they will implement the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, a landmark education law meant to help struggling schools. The law allows states greater flexibility in dealing with low performing schools, but the flexibility also comes with the risk or doing too little, too much or too differently. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

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Dmitri Moua, a suburban St. Paul high school junior, accused the Minnesota State High School League, the state’s official athletics governing board, of sex discrimination in a lawsuit filed last summer, saying he could not join the girl’s dance team because it did not allow for boys to compete. Another high school junior joined the lawsuit, and this month, after winning an injunction from the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, the MSHSL announced it would allow for any boy who wishes to compete in dance the opportunity to do so beginning in the fall of 2019. (photo courtesy of Pacific Legal Foundation)

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Illustration on pick and choose Christianity by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Freshman Liuxu Yang, of China, right, follows graduate student Cao Ou, of China, on a tour of the Syracuse University campus in Syracuse, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 26, 2005. (AP Photo/Kevin Rivoli) **FILE**

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"To all the countries of the former Soviet Union — look at us, everything is possible," said Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in his victory speech. On TV, Mr. Zelenskiy portrays a teacher who denounces corruption and becomes president. (Associated Press)

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President Trump (AP)

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A member of the Jefferson County, Colo., Sheriffs Department stands guard outside the main driveway to Columbine High School Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, in Littleton, Colo. Students were kept inside the building as a large police response was summoned because a caller claimed to have placed explosive devices in the school and was hiding outside with a weapon. The call was determined to be false. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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The Alliance Defending Freedom slammed Yale Law School's policy that ends funding for fellowships with organizations that refuse to hire LGBTQ students. The group says the rule violates the religious freedom of organizations with traditional values. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Aisha Tyler pursued an early interest in comedy at McAteer High School in San Francisco, which had a special program called School of the Arts, now named Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts. Tyler attended high school with Sam Rockwell, and Margaret Cho. Tyler graduated from Dartmouth College in 1992. She was a member of The Tabard, a co-ed fraternity. At Dartmouth, she co-founded and sang in the Dartmouth Rockapellas, an all-female a cappella group devoted to spreading social awareness through song

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Danica McKellar studied at UCLA where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in Mathematics in 1998. As an undergraduate, she co-authored a scientific paper with Professor Lincoln Chayes and fellow student Brandy Winn titled "Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin–Teller models. Their results are termed the "Chayes–McKellar–Winn theorem". Later, when Chayes was asked to comment about the mathematical abilities of his student coauthors, he was quoted in The New York Times, "I thought that the two were really, really first-rate." For her past collaborative work on research papers, McKellar is currently assigned the Erdős number four, and her Erdős–Bacon number is six

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Natalie Portman graduated from Syosset High School in Long Island in 1999. She studied ballet and modern dance at the American Theater Dance Workshop in New Hyde Park, New York, and attended the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts in Wheatley Heights, both on Long Island. Portman skipped the premiere of her film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, so she could study for her high school final exams. After graduating from Harvard University in 2003, she was commencement speaker in 2015. As a student, Portman co-authored two research papers that were published in scientific journals. Her 1998 high school paper, "A Simple Method to Demonstrate the Enzymatic Production of Hydrogen from Sugar", co-authored with scientists Ian Hurley and Jonathan Woodward, was entered in the Intel Science Talent Search. In 2002, she contributed to a study on memory called "Frontal lobe activation during object permanence: data from near-infrared spectroscopy" during her psychology studies at Harvard. In 2003, Portman graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. At Harvard, Portman was Alan Dershowitz's research assistant. While attending Harvard, she was a resident of Lowell House and wrote a letter to the Harvard Crimson in response to an essay critical of Israeli actions toward Palestinians

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Emma Watson attended the Dragon School in Oxford, remaining there until 2003. From the age of six, she wanted to become an actress, and trained at the Oxford branch of Stagecoach Theatre Arts, a part-time theatre school where she studied singing, dancing, and acting. By the age of ten, Watson had performed in various Stagecoach productions and school plays, including Arthur: The Young Years and The Happy Prince. In June 2006, she took GCSE school examinations in ten subjects, achieving eight A* and two A grades. In May 2007, she took AS levels in English, Geography, Art, and History of Art. The following year, she dropped History of Art to pursue the three A levels, receiving an A grade in each subject. Watson took a year off after leaving high school to film Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows beginning in February 2009, but said she intended to continue her studies and later confirmed that she had chosen Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. In March 2011, after 18 months at the university, Watson announced that she was deferring her course for "a semester or two" though she attended Worcester College, Oxford during the 201112 academic year as a "visiting student". On 25 May 2014, she graduated from Brown University with a bachelor's degree in English literature

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Kate Beckinsale was educated at Godolphin and Latymer School, an independent school for girls in Hammersmith, West London and was involved with the Orange Tree Youth Theatre. She was twice a winner of the WH Smith Young Writers Award for both fiction and poetry. Beckinsale studied French and Russian literature at New College, Oxford. She was involved with the Oxford University Dramatic Society, most notably being directed by fellow student Tom Hooper in a production of A View from the Bridge at the Oxford Playhouse. As a Modern Languages student, she was required to spend her third year abroad, and studied in Paris. She then decided to quit university to concentrate on her burgeoning acting career