Education

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Boston University students, including Tori Pinheiro (third from right) of New Bedford, Mass., hold a candlelight vigil on the university's Marsh Plaza on Saturday, May 12, 2012, in Boston, for three students studying in New Zealand who were killed when their minivan crashed during a weekend trip. Miss Pinheiro was the girlfriend of Austin Brashears, one of the students who died. (AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye)

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** FILE ** Former Penn State Vice President Gary Schultz (left) and Tim Curley (right), who is on leave as the school's athletic director, enter a district judge's office for an arraignment in Harrisburg, Pa., in November 2011. (AP Photos/Brad Bower [left] and Matt Rourke [right])

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., gestures while speaking May 10, 2012, to students and educators about student loans at the White House. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Iranian technicians work with foreign colleagues at the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant outside the southern port city of Bushehr, Iran, in this photo from Nov. 30, 2009, released by the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency. (Associated Press/Iranian Students News Agency)

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Signs backing and against the Constitutional Marriage Amendment line a sidewalk outside a polling site at Leesville Road Middle School in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday. A constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage was driving turnout for the state's primary. (Associated Press)

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Emilien Neron and Sophie Nelisse play middle-school students dealing with a teacher's suicide in "Monsieur Lazhar." (Music Box Films)

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Gretchen Colby casts her vote on May 8, 2012, at Belville Elementary School in Brunswick County, N.C. (Associated Press/The Star-News)

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Education Secretary Arne Duncan chimed in Monday in support of federal recognition of same-sex marriage. (Associated Press)

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Tara Kane Prendergast (foreground), a Brown University senior from Colorado, joins fellow students at an informational protest on the Brown campus in Providence, R.I., on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, to advocate for the school's financial support of the city. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)