Education

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Madalyn Ruggiero)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Madalyn Ruggiero)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters, including one dressed as "Uncle Sam," as he campaigns at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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The bus of Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney drives towards Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Supporters listen as Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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A woman who did not want to give her name shouts out while walking a protest line outside the gates of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. The rally was to show support for Dr. Angela McCaskill, Chief Diversity Officer, Gallaudet University after she was placed on administrative leave following her participation in a petition regarding same sex marriage. Approximately 50 people from the Mt. Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Md. were joined by a small crowd of students and news crews. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at the football stadium at Defiance High School in Defiance, Ohio, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Madalyn Ruggiero)

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Amra Babic, mayor of a Bosnian town, is hopeful about tolerance. “Finally we have overcome our own prejudices,” she says. “The one about women in politics, then the one about hijab-wearing women — and even the one about hijab-wearing women in politics.” (Associated Press)

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Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Vice President Joseph R. Biden, display T-shirts given to them by students at the International Studies Learning Center in South Gate, Calif., on Feb. 17. Mr. Xi is expected to take over as head of the ruling Communist Party in November, before becoming president in 2013. Below are the dusty remnants of an abandoned cave dwelling where Mr. Xi lived during part of his youth, when he was sent to learn Mao-era peasant virtues. (The Associated Press)

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Students protest education cuts in the streets of Madrid on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012. The Spanish government said Wednesday it will decide within the next few weeks whether to ask for outside financial help, noting it might opt for a precautionary line of credit instead of bailout cash. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

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Students protest education cuts at Sant Jaume Square in Barcelona on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. The Spanish government said Wednesday it will decide within the next few weeks whether to ask for outside financial help, noting it might opt for a precautionary line of credit instead of bailout cash. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

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Students march in protest against government cuts in education in Barcelona on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. The Spanish government has pushed through nine straight months of tough austerity measures that have prompted Spain's 17 regional governments, some of which are heavily indebted, to slash spending in health care and education. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

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Tony Teano (left) of the Anne Arundel Community College internship office talks with independent U.S. Senate candidate Rob Sobhani at a jobs fair at the college, in Arnold, Md., on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Graduate student Pedro Ramirez is photographed Oct. 19, 2012, in front of a Proposition 30 sign on the campus of California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. Proposition 30, which includes a temporary quarter-cent increase in the statewide sales tax and higher income taxes on those who make more than $250,000 a year, faces a well-funded opposition campaign that claims the $6 billion the higher taxes would generate each year would not help schools. "We tell them if you don't vote you're literally going to be voting for a tuition increase," said Ramirez, a graduate student at Cal State-Long Beach who is working to rally student support for the ballot measure. (Associated Press)

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California Gov. Jerry Brown talks Oct. 23, 2012, with students of a second-grade class at Perkins Elementary School in San Diego. Brown is making appearances around the state to push for Proposition 30, which would boost the state sales tax by a quarter cent for four years and raise income taxes for seven years on those who make more than $250,000 annually. (Associated Press)

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California Gov. Jerry Brown shushes the students of a second-grade class at Perkins Elementary School in San Diego during a Oct. 23, 2012, campaign trip. Brown is visiting Southern California cities to drum up support for Proposition 30. The tax plan would boost the state sales tax by a quarter cent for four years and raise income taxes for seven years on those who make more than $250,000 annually. (Associated Press)

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In this Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 photo, graduate student Pedro Ramirez is photographed in front of a Proposition 30 sign on the campus of California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. Proposition 30 includes a temporary quarter-cent increase in the statewide sales tax and higher income taxes on those who make more than $250,000 a year. "We tell them if you don't vote you're literally going to be voting for a tuition increase," said Mr. Ramirez, a graduate student at Cal State-Long Beach who is working to rally student support for the ballot measure. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)