Education

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Students visiting the district, sit on the edge of the tidal basin as they watch the sunrise in Washington, DC., Thursday, April 11, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

Kelly Anne, a 17 year old Asian elephant, with the Ringling Brothers, waves her trunk to children who are in the Young Rembrandts, a school art program, at the George Mason University Patriot Center, in Fairfax, VA., Thursday, April 11, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Children who are in the Young Rembrandts, a school art program, laugh with excitement as Kelly Anne, a 17 year old Asian elephant, paints a picture, at George Mason University Patriot Center, in Fairfax, VA., Thursday, April 11, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Children who are in the Young Rembrandts, a school art program, laugh with excitement as look at a painting that Kelly Anne, a 17 year old Asian elephant, painted, at George Mason University Patriot Center, in Fairfax, VA., Thursday, April 11, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Leonte Castillo, from the Young Rembrandts, a school art program, paints a picture of an elephant at George Mason University Patriot Center, in Fairfax, VA., Thursday, April 11, 2013. (Andrew S Geraci/The Washington Times)

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Lee Seung Jae, 23, a student at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul says, “North Korea right now is a like a kid going through puberty.” (Guy Taylor/The Washington Times)

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President Obama pauses during his address during a visit to the University of Hartford, in Hartford, Conn., on April 8, 2013. Obama visited the school to highlight gun control legislation and to meet with the families of victims from the Sandy Hook elementary school shootings. (Associated Press)

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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discussed birth control policy at a forum Monday at the Harvard School of Public Health. (Associated Press)

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President Obama comforts Nicole Hockley on Monday at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. Mrs. Hockley and her husband, Ian, lost their son, Dylan, in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December. Mr. Obama is pushing Congress to hold votes on the gun controls he has proposed. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Chelsea Clinton speaks at the third day of the Clinton Global Initiative University conference at Gateway STEM High School in St. Louis on April 7, 2013. (Associated Press/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Christian Gooden)

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An unidentified elementary school teacher, center, orders her students to leave as they watch South Korean housewives stage a press conference denouncing the annual joint military exercise known as Foal Eagle, between South Korea and the United States, near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, April 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)