Education

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Corruption in Colleges Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Illustration on access to good education by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

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School officials said a non-white student confessed this week to scrawling a racist message on a girls' bathroom mirror at Parkway Central High School in Chesterfield, Missouri, on Nov. 15. (KPLR 11)

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A Georgia county commissioner and her school board member husband are crying foul after their seventh-grade son was ordered to change out of his "FNN - Fake News Network" T-shirt before going on a school field trip to CNN's Atlanta headquarters. (WGCL)

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Berkeley County, South Carolina, Sheriff Duane Lewis is standing by his deputy who angered parents earlier this month when he asked a middle school student to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance. (WCSC)

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Parents prayed in front of Lake Minneola High School in Florida on Tuesday after a student shot and killed himself there. Researchers have found a disturbingly strong correlation between heavy social media use and teenage suicide, along with other mental health issues. (Associated Press)

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This photo, provided by University of Buffalo, shows ongoing construction for the new Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences on University of Buffalo's downtown medical campus, Wednesday Oct. 25, 2017, in Buffalo, N.Y. From the glass-walled offices and conference rooms stacked around a central atrium, lounge furniture grouped in sunny spaces and lecture hall desks that morph into conference tables, the design reflects the idea that medical school is ever more a group endeavor, say university officials, who are beginning to move in before the start of classes in January. (Douglas Levere/University of Buffalo via AP)

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A teacher at the New Vision Academy charter school in Nashville, Tenn., was suspended this week after a video circulated on social media showed a student's hijab being pulled off during class. (WSMV)

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A racist note posted on a student's front door at Kansas State University was placed there by the student himself, police said Thursday, marking the school's second race hoax in the past year. In November 2017, Dauntarius Williams, of Manhattan, admitted to police that he scrawled racist messages on his own car, pictured here, near the public campus. (Fox 4 KC) ** FILE **

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Students at UNC-Chapel Hill watched on Nov. 2, 2017, as a device exploded at the university's famous "Tree of Knowledge." (Image: ABC-11 North Carolina screenshot)

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Taconic SkillsUSA students Dylan Greene, 16, back, and Sawyer Moore, 16, work with other volunteers to install new playground equipment at Conte Community School in Pittsfield, Mass., on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2017. (Stephanie Zollshan/The Berkshire Eagle via AP)