Education

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Supporters of Samantha Pawlucy, a student at Charles Carroll High School in Philadelphia, gathered outside the school to show support for the teen as she returned to class on Oct. 9, 2012, for the first time since she was allegedly singled out by a teacher for wearing a Mitt Romney T-shirt to school. (Associated Press)

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A police transport vehicle drives up the path where a body has been found off the trail in Thaiss Memorial Park in Fairfax, Va. on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. Fairfax County Police have not yet determined if it is the body of missing 17-year-old W.T. Woodson High School student Bryan Glenn, who was last seen Oct. 1 when he dropped his brother off at school and whose car was found in the park's parking lot the next day. A search party set out near 10 a.m. this morning, and a small group later found the body. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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**FILE** Thousands of public school teachers rally Sept. 10, 2012, outside the Chicago Public Schools district headquarters on the first day of strike action over teachers' contracts in Chicago. (Associated Press)

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Maine's Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, Cynthia Dill, speaks to teacher Ted Jordan's high school government class Tuesday in Cape Elizabeth. (Associated Press)

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In this Sept. 27, 2006, file photo, former General Electric CEO Jack Welch addresses students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

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**FILE** Joseph Clementi and his wife, Jane, the parents of a Rutgers University student who killed himself in 2010 after his roommate used a webcam to see him kissing another man, open a symposium on use and misuse of social media at Rutgers University on Nov. 14, 2011.

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Camden County Prosecutor Warren W. Faulk announces Oct. 4, 2012, in Camden, N.J., that three teachers and two administrators at a southern New Jersey high school have been arrested on charges stemming from allegations involving sex with students. (Associated Press)

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Students leave New Fairfield High School in New Fairfield, Conn., on Sept. 28, 2012. Tyler Giuliano, a student involved in Civil Air Patrol at the school, was killed by his father, Jeffrey Giuliano, during what appeared to be an attempted burglary early Thursday morning. Giuliano fatally shot a masked teenager in self-defense, then discovered that he had killed his son, state police said. (Associated Press)

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A student hands over two electronic devices and payment of a dollar for each at the Pure Loyalty Electronic Device Storage truck parked near the Washington Irving educational complex in New York on Sept. 27, 2012. Cellphones are banned in all New York City public schools, but the rule is widely ignored except in schools with metal detectors. Outside those schools, entrepreneurs park trucks where students drop off electronic devices before class and get them back at the end of the day. (Associated Press)

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Faith Hurley, who works with the Fairfax County Public Schools system, uses cued speech, a method of visually representing sounds in English, so that hearing-impaired students can understand what is happening in the ring during the Circus of the Senses performance. More than 1,200 children and adults were on hand Wednesday. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)