Education

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In this frame grab provided by KPRC Houston, an unidentified person is transported by emergency personnel at Lone Star College on Jan. 22, 2013, in Houston, where law enforcement officials say the community college is on lockdown amid reports of a shooter on campus. (Associated Press/Courtesy KPRC TV)

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"If you drop out of high school, how many good jobs are there out there for you? None. That wasn't true 10 or 15 years ago," Education Secretary Arne Duncan said while discussing the national increase in high school graduation rates. (Associated Press)

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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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Students walk across the Dartmouth College campus green in Hanover, N.H., in March 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

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A woman takes her children by taxi to Public School 33 in New York on Wednesday as more than 8,000 school bus drivers and aides go on strike over job protection. Children who rely on the buses include 54,000 special education students and others who live far from schools or transportation. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A school bus arrives to drop off students in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. A strike by New York City school bus drivers that had been threatened for weeks will start Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, affecting 152,000 students, the president of the union representing the drivers announced on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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This 2011 photo shows Maria Waltherr-Willard, 61, who taught Spanish and French at Mariemont High School in Cincinnati from 1976 until 2009, when she was transferred to the district's middle school. Waltherr-Willard is suing the school district where she used to work, accusing its administrators of discriminating against her because of a rare phobia she says she has: a fear of young children. (Associated Press/Community Press, Heidi Fallon)

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** FILE ** A police officer leads two women and a child from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on the day of the mass killings. (Newtown Bee via Associated Press)