Education

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Financially ill-prepared college students "take on mountains of student debt without any hope of paying it off," says Jordan Goodman. Shown: scene from a 2011 protest in Washington, D.C.. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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"Won’t Back Down,” which opens Friday and stars Viola Davis (left) and Maggie Gyllenhaal, is seen by some as an attack on teachers unions and has been embraced by proponents of school choice. (20th Century Fox)

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Ann Caine, superintendent of Stillwater schools, answers a question during a news conference in Stillwater, Okla., on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, after a 13-year-old student shot and killed himself in a hallway at an city junior high school before classes began Wednesday. Looking on is Stillwater police Capt. Randy Dickerson. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

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Pakistani students chant anti-U.S. slogans at a rally to protest against the making of a blasphemous film by a U.S. filmmaker at Karachi university on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, in Pakistan. A Pakistani Taliban spokesman says the militant group has announced an amnesty for a minister who offered a $100,000 bounty for anyone who kills the maker of an anti-Islam film. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

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In this Sept. 11, 2012, photo, Hailey Fink gets acquainted with a corn snake in the first grade classroom of Dawn Slinger in Farmington, Minn. Experts say many children who have mastered video games before entering first grade have never even had a starter pet. Maryland-based Pets in the Classroom project is offering grants to help teachers pay for pets, cages, tanks and supplies of food. It issued its 10,000th grant this summer. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigns at D’Evelyn High School in Denver on Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Chicago teachers and their supporters rallied as Mayor Rahm Emanuel sought a compromise. Though the union didn’t win everything it wanted, the battle has encouraged teachers unions to hold workshops and town halls in other cities. (Associated Press)

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Kountze High School cheerleader Brooke Coates writes Scripture verses on a vehicle. The southeast Texas community is backing cheerleaders after they were told not to use Scripture verses on their banners at football games. The court has intervened in the issue of religion in public schools. (Associated Press)

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North Carolina Central University student Aaliyah McMillan (center) cheers for first lady Michelle Obama as she speaks at the Durham, N.C., school on Sept. 19, 2012. (Associated Press/The News & Observer, Takaaki Iwabu)