Education

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Hans Pennink Copy photograph of Joe Vellano, University at Maryland College Football player visiting the university at age 5 years old on display at the family business in Latham, N.Y., Tuesday, July, 31, 2012. (Hans Pennink/Special to The Washington Times)

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A new $60 million high school football stadium in Allen, Texas, features seating for 18,000 fans, a 38-foot-wide video screen, corporate sponsors and an upper deck. The school’s previous venue had just 7,000 permanent seats. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Yale University president Richard Levin (right) leads a procession May 21, 2012, during Yale's commencement exercises in New Haven, Conn. (Associated Press)

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Preston Carter, 100, talks with police officers after police say his car went onto a sidewalk and plowed into a group of parents and children outside a South Los Angeles elementary school, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. Nine children and two adults were injured in the wreck. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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A Los Angeles City firefighter assists one of eight people injured when a car sped onto a sidewalk and plowed into a group of parents and children outside Main Street Elementary school, Wednesday Aug. 29, 2012 in Los Angeles. The crash occurred at 2:50 p.m., shortly after school had let out for the day, according to a statement from the Los Angeles Unified School District. Some of the people injured were children. (AP Photo/La Opinion, J. Emilio Flores)

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Students and supporters cheer President Barack Obama during a rally in Charlottesville, Va., Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012. ( AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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This booking photo made available by the Baltimore County Police Department shows Robert Wayne Gladden, Jr., 15, of Baltimore. Gladden, Jr. was charged as an adult with attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault in the shooting of a classmate on the first day of school at a Baltimore County high school. (Associated Press/Baltimore County Police Department)

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Centenary College Public Safety Officer Alvin Bush walks around the gym floor between beds for students from Dillard University, who are coming to the campus because of Tropical Storm Isaac heading towards New Orleans. Students were expected to arrive in Shreveport, La., by Monday night. (Associated Press)

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Students evacuate Perry Hall High School after a student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Perry Hall, Md. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, according to police. No one else was reported injured. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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A Baltimore County police officer speaks to a parent as students are evacuated from Perry Hall High School after a student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Perry Hall, Md. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)

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Parents and students try to reunite after a student was shot and critically wounded on the first day of classes at Perry Hall High School, Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, in Perry Hall, Md. A suspect was taken into custody shortly after the shooting, according to police. No one else was reported injured. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)