Education

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President Obama speaks about education on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at the Decatur Community Recreation Center in Decatur, Ga. The president is traveling to promote the economic and educational plan he highlighted in his State of the Union address on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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The president needs these for his State of the Union address. (Illustration by Dana Summers for the Orlando Sentinel)

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"My understanding is that the waivers [for No Child Left Behind] become obsolete" if new federal education reforms go into effect, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a Senate panel Thursday. (Associated Press)

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Grayson High School football player Robert Nkemdiche, the nation's top recruit, announces his intent to play college football for Ole Miss during a signing day ceremony at his high school auditorium in Grayson, Ga., Wednesday Feb. 6, 2013. (AP Photo/David Tulis)

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Students from Salida Del Sol Elementary School are evacuated to the school cafeteria by police officers after three schools went into lockdown on Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, in Yuma, Ariz. The unconfirmed report of a person with a gun initially prompted the lockdown, but no gun was found. (AP Photo/The Yuma Sun, Craig Fry)

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Palestinian students attend class in a Ramallah, West Bank, school Sunday. A U.S.-funded study released Monday said both Israeli and Palestinian schoolbooks largely present one-sided narratives of the two sides' conflict. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Second-grader Jonathan Cheng (center) looks at fruits and vegetables during a school lunch at Fairmeadow Elementary School in Palo Alto, Calif., on Dec. 2, 2010. (Associated Press)

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Window washer Jose Torres cleans the windows Monday at the new USO center at Fort Belvoir that will provide "homelike environments to receive the training, education and job placement services needed to move forward in life." (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)