Education

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Afghans burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama during a protest in Khost, south-east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012. A few hundred of university students protested against an anti-Islam film which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman, in Khost, shouting "death to America." (AP Photo/Nashanuddin Khan)

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Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago teachers union, departs a news conference after her meeting with the union's House of Delegates Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, in Chicago. Lewis told the delegates that a "framework" was in place to end the teachers strike. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Lt. Joel Vettel of the Fargo Police Department talks to the media near the North Dakota State University campus in Fargo, N.D., following a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of the campus on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012. Thousands of people streamed off university campuses in Texas and North Dakota on Friday after phoned-in bomb threats prompted evacuations and officials warned students and faculty to get away as quickly as possible. No bombs had been found on either campus by midmorning and it was not clear whether the threats were related. (AP Photo/The Forum, Ryan Babb)

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Eastside Elementary school fourth-grader Raela Bridges (right) explains what parts of the school lunch she likes to her classmates Grace Bethany (left), Cameron Kinard (back left), and Brock Maddox (back right) on Sept. 12, 2012, in Clinton, Miss. (Associated Press)

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A large crowd of public school teachers rally at Chicago's Congress Plaza on Sept. 13, 2012, to protest against billionaire Hyatt Hotel mogul Penny Pritzker, who is also a member of the Chicago Board of Education. Protesters said that $5.2 million in Tax Increment Financing (TIF) funds being used to build a new Hyatt hotel in Hyde Park would be better spent on meeting basic student needs. (Associated Press)

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D.C. dignitaries joined city children on Thursday to cut the ribbon in front of Educare, a state-of-the-art center focusing on early childhood education in Ward 7. From left, are D.C. Housing Authority Director Adrianne Todman, council member Yvette M. Alexander, Ward 7 Democrat, and Mayor Vincent C. Gray. Dorothy Douglas, leaning over the banner in the black dress, is a member of the D.C. State Board of Education for Ward 7. (Tom Howell Jr./The Washington Times)

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A large group of teachers marches past John Marshall Metropolitan High School on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)

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Robert Ross, 32, a full-time clerk and a leader in the seminary training program, plays guitar during services at the California Rehabilitative Center chapel in Norco, Calif. The program is being introduced in other prisons.

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**FILE** Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke speaks Aug. 7, 2012, to educators in the board room of the Federal Reserve in Washington during a town hall meeting. (Associated Press)

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Thousands of teachers rally for the second consecutive day outside the Chicago Board of Education headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Chicago. Teachers walked off the job Monday for the first time in 25 years over issues that include pay raises, classroom conditions, job security and teacher evaluations. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)

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Carmen Brownlee (left) and Latonya Williams, parents of Chicago public school students, walk a picket line with striking teachers Tuesday. The teachers union said it had signed off on just six of 48 articles in the contract under negotiation. Issues in the bitter dispute include teacher evaluations and job security. (Associated Press)