Education

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Memphis elementary school student Erin Shead was told that she couldn't write about God for a school project, but she could write on Michael Jackson as her idol. (WREG 3 Memphis News screenshot)

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Frances Hena of Bakersfield, Calif., stands by her 11-year-old daughter as she holds a sign designed to shame her for "twerking" at a school dance. (ABC News screenshot)

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Former CIA Director David H. Petraeus is heckled on the streets of New York while on his way to teach a class at the City University of New York on Monday, Sept. 9, 2013. (YouTube)

** FILE ** First lady Michelle Obama joins exercises with pupils at Orr Elementary in Washington, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, during a visit for a back to school event highlighting healthy changes happening in schools and across the country. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Over objections of students and alumni, former President George W. Bush received the Global Service Award from the University of Denver's Korbel School of International Studies for his work in combating HIV, cervical cancer and malaria in Africa. (Associated Press)

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Miss America 2011, Teresa Scanlan, who is now attending Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Va., speaks to The Associated Press during an interview at the campus coffee shop, Aug. 13, 2013. To an outsider, the bikini-clad, Vegas-savvy Scanlan, mixing with fellow students at ultra-conservative Patrick Henry College, that caters to homeschoolers and regulates the private affairs of its students, may be a jarring contrast. But it’s proved a good fit for Scanlan. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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Eunice Pacheco (right) and LaKesia Brent wait for news about their children outside Spring High School on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, in Spring, Texas, after a stabbing incident in the school cafeteria. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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Demonstrators hold a mock California state flag as students and others protest the California Supreme Court's upholding of Proposition 8, which outlawed same-sex marriages, in a march and rally from the UCLA campus to the West Los Angeles Federal Building on May 26, 2009. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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**FILE** Maryland quarterback C..J. Brown throws during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Boston College in College Park, Md., Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)