Education

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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)

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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)