Education

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Iranian and Syrian students chant slogans during an anti-Israeli demonstration in front of the U.N. office in Tehran, Iran, Monday, May 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Chancellor Philip DiStefano addresses 5,500 graduates and their families and friends during spring commencement at Folsom Field at the University of Colorado at Boulder. (Source: University of Colorado) ** FILE **

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** FILE ** An elementary school student is walked to class as a spring storm dropped snow over Boulder, Colo., Tuesday April 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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**FILE** A Fairfax County Police vehicle sits at the entrance to Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., on April 17, 2007. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Police and firefighters gather outside La Salle High School, Monday, April 29, 2013, in Cincinnati, after a high school student pulled out a gun and shot himself in a classroom. The Hamilton County sheriff's office says the youth was taken to a hospital with a self-inflicted wound. (AP Photo/Cincinnati Enquirer, Glenn Hartong)

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A high school in Wilcox County, Georgia, hosted its first racially mixed prom over the weekend. (Screen shot: ABC News)

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Second year grad student Elizabeth Weiner, right, watches as UMD student and volunteer pilot Colin Gore, center, performs a test flight as students with the University of Maryland attempt to win the $250,000 AHS Sikorsky Prize using their human-powered helicopter at the Prince George's County Sports and Learning Complex in Landover, Md., Sunday, April 28, 2013. The helicopter has already set records for flight time and altitude. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)