Education

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**FILE** President Obama stops for a photo with members of the Vox Harmonia Visual and Performing Arts Academy Salem High School during a Sept. 27, 2012, campaign event at Farm Bureau Live in Virginia Beach, Va. (Associated Press)

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Lloyd Shapley, one of two Americans who were awarded the 2012 Nobel economics prize, is pictured at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. Mr. Shapley, 89, and Alvin Roth were recognized for their studies on the matchmaking that takes place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals, students with schools and human organs with transplant recipients. The work of the two scholars has sparked a flourishing field of research and helped improve the performance of many markets, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. Mr. Shapley is a professor emeritus at the University of California at Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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Alvin Roth, a Harvard University scholar who is a visiting professor at Stanford University, takes a phone call at his home in Menlo Park, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, after being awarded the Nobel economics prize. Mr. Roth, 60, and Lloyd Shapley, 89, two Americans, were awarded the Nobel for their studies on the matchmaking that takes place when doctors are coupled up with hospitals, students with schools and human organs with transplant recipients. The work of two has sparked a flourishing field of research and helped improve the performance of many markets, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. (AP Photo/Stanford News Service, Linda A. Cicero)

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A still frame from a YouTube video shows police officers beating a University of Maryland student after a basketball game on March 3, 2010.

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A Pakistani boy holds up a picture of 14-year-old schoolgirl Malala Yousufzai, who was shot on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women. The schoolboy and other children are attending a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, on Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012, to condemn the attack. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

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Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin answers a question during the vice presidential debate at Centre College. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Republican vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin answers a question during the vice presidential debate at Centre College. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Vice President Joe Biden answers a question during the vice presidential debate at Centre College. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Critics say Gallaudet University stifled viewpoint diversity by suspending Angela McCaskill for signing a petition favoring traditional marriage. (Gallaudet University)

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The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, Rep. W. Todd Akin, who home-schooled his children, not surprisingly has the avid backing of the state’s home-schoolers. Mr. Akin is running to unseat Sen. Claire McCaskill, who has the endorsement of teachers unions. (The Associated Press)

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A banner made by a local middle school depicting Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and Vice President Joseph Biden hangs on the wall Oct. 10, 2012, inside the media center at Centre College in Danville, Ky. Biden and Ryan will debate at the college on Oct. 11. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama stops for a photo with members of the Vox Harmonia Visual and Performing Arts Academy Salem High School during a Sept. 27, 2012, campaign event at Farm Bureau Live in Virginia Beach, Va. (Associated Press)