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2. Friday Night Lights (2004) directed by Peter Berg, 'documented' the coach and players of a high school football team in the Texas city of Odessa that supported and was obsessed with them. The book on which it was based, Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream (1990) by H. G. Bissinger, followed the story of the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team as they made a run towards the state championship. A television series of the same name premiered on October 3, 2006 on NBC. The film won the Best Sports Movie ESPY Award and was ranked number 37 on Entertainment Weekly's list of the Best High School Movies
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Signs have been posted at the University of California, Berkeley, campus calling for a protest Thursday against right-wing speaker Ben Shapiro. The university will seal off large parts of its campus with a closed perimeter and a "very large" visible police presence. (Associated Press)
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A teacher at River Ridge High School in Woodstock, Georgia, has been pulled from the classroom after a video showing her comparing President Trump's campaign slogan "Make America Great Again" to a swastika went viral. (Facebook/@Turning Point News)
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Professors from Harvard University and other Boston-area colleges were arrested Thursday while protesting against President Trump's plan to rescind an Obama-era program shielding young illegal immigrants from deportation. (CBS Boston)
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Liberalization of the Naval War College Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Illustration on bad teachers in U.S. schools by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times
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A new study from the Rand Corp. reveals that starting school after 8:30 a.m. would save the U.S. billions of dollars over the next decade. (RAND Corporation)
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A first-grade teacher at McCordsville Elementary School in Indiana stirred controversy after sending a letter home to parents asking them to tell their children not to talk about God in the classroom. (WISH-TV)
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Maryland head coach DJ Durkin on the sidelines against Penn State during the second half of an NCAA college football game in State College, Pa., Saturday, Oct. 8, 2016. Penn State won the game 38-14. (AP Photo/Chris Knight)
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Test Your Diversity I.Q. (Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times)
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Rabbi Ilene Haigh (left) and Rabbi Jessy Gross march with over 300 Jews in the 1,000 Minister March for Justice in Washington D.C. on Monday. The women are part of the Religious Action Center, the social justice arm of the Reform Jewish movement. (Laura Kelly)
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A teacher at Rocklin Academy in Sacramento, California, reportedly used "I Am Jazz" as part of a kindergarten lesson on transgender identity, upsetting parents who were not made aware of the lesson plan in advance. (Amazon.com) **FILE**
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In this 2013 file photo a man displays his holstered sidearm. The AP reported on April 12, 2018, that a California teacher who accidentally discharged his gun in class has tendered his resignation, effective at the end of the school year. (Associated Press)
