Education

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From left, Integriti Reeves, artist-in-residence with the D.C. Jazz Festival Education Program, Cedric Edmon, a student at Howard University, Larquette Brown, 12, with the Boys and Girls Club Teen Arts Program (TAP) and Elliot Seppa, a student at Howard University, perform at the National Cherry Blossom Festival launch luncheon at Hamilton Live in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2012. The event included about 200 people, both sponsors and potential sponsors. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Teresa Wagner says she was denied a full-time teaching job at the University of Iowa law school because of her work with pro-life groups; the school says she refused to teach legal analysis. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Warren County Juvenile Court Judge Mike Powell warns 17-year-old Ohio high school student Tyler Pagenstecher (right) of the consequences of admitting guilt at his first hearing in Lebanon, Ohio, on July 31, 2012. Police say Pagenstecher played a major role in a drug ring that sold as much as $20,000 worth of high-grade marijuana a month to fellow students at two high schools. (Associated Press)

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Cuban school children wait for voters during municipal elections next to a picture of the late revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara in a polling station in Havana Sunday Oct. 21, 2012. Cuban school children known as "pioneros" are in all polling stations during elections overseeing the process.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Former Senator George McGovern takes questions after speaking to students at St. Augustine High School in Fla. on February 10, 2010. Former Sen. George McGovern, who lost 1972 presidential bid to Nixon, has died at 90, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012.(AP Photo/The St. Augustine Record, Daron Dean)

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In this Oct. 13, 1983 file photo, Presidential hopefuls, Sen. John Glenn, left, former Sen. George McGovern, center, and former Vice-President Walter Mondale, right, pause for photographers after debating the nuclear arms issue at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. A family spokesman says, McGovern, the Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, has died at the age of 90. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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New York City is offering 12 acres of land and up to $100 million in improvements for a tech-focused graduate school on Roosevelt Island. Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology will run the school, which will include company offices and classrooms aimed at linking research and the real world. (Kilo Copy via Associated Press)

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Pakistani shooting victim Malala Yousufzai, 15, recovers in Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, England, after being attacked and shot in the head Oct. 9, 2012, by Taliban gunmen in Pakistan for advocating education for girls. (Associated Press/University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust)

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Pakistani students hold pictures of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot by the Taliban, during a protest on Saturday. (Associated Press)

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Illustration Religious Freedom by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Assistant project manager Brandon Chambers watches as demolition begins on Louisa County High School two days before the one year anniversary of the magnitude 5.8 earthquake that hit near Mineral, Va., causing millions of dollars worth of damage and was felt in nearly every state along the east coast, Mineral, Va., Tuesday, August 21, 2012. The school sustained massive structural damage and was deemed unsafe, forcing all their students to move into nearby trailers. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Left to right: Seventh graders Jack Dooley, 12, Alex Letchworth, 12, and Scott Browoning, 13, and their fellow classmates at Langston Hughes Middle School drop under their desk and hold on as they participate in the Great ShakeOut national earthquake drill, Reston, Va., Thursday, October 18, 2012. Students in the Washington, D.C. region are now participating in the earthquake preparation program for the first time after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck the area in August 2011. According to the program's website, an estimated 18 million people are participating this year. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)