Education

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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)

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Bryan Cranston plays Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who transforms into a crystal meth kingpin on AMC’s “Breaking Bad.” The hit series, praised for its captivating characters and plotting, is one of many violent productions on television as the industry trends toward more morbid fare. (AMC)

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FILE - In this May 20, 2012 file photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, singer Taylor Swift walks the red carpet for the 2012 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand on the Las Vegas Strip. Swift is giving $10,000 and concert tickets to a Boston school for the deaf after a prank during an online contest promising an on-campus performance by the Grammy-winning singer. Horace Mann School for the Deaf was disqualified from the contest because many of the votes were from pranksters who thought it would be funny for a school for the deaf to win tickets to a live concert. Instead, Swift and contest sponsors will donate a combined $50,000 to the school, and VH1's Save the Music program will donate $10,000 in musical instruments. (AP Photo/Las Vegas News Bureau, Glenn Pinkerton, file)

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**FILE** Demonstrators protest Feb. 13, 2012, outside of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals after a panel heard oral arguments in San Francisco in a lawsuit seeking to overturn Proposition 209, which barred racial, ethnic or gender preferences in public education, employment and contracting. (Associated Press)

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Students walk through the University of Texas at Austin campus. The campus has one of the most-diverse student bodies in the country. Texas has maintained some use of affirmative action. It also has implemented a "top 10 percent" plan granting automatic admission to top high school students based on class rank and, as a result, its enrollment of minorities has risen overall since the late 1990s. (Associated Press)

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Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party candidate for president, addresses an audience of students and the public at Macalester College, Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 in St. Paul, Minn. Johnson, a former two-term New Mexico governor, is on a nationwide college tour as part of his campaign for president. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)