Education

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Boston College junior defenseman and Capitals' prospect Patrick Wey will get his first taste of NCAA Frozen Four action after dealing with a number of injuries. (Boston College/John Quackenbos)

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Nnaemeka Alozie, campaign manager for congressional candidate David Steinman, reacts with milk on his face after being pepper-sprayed during a protest on April 3, 2012, at Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, Calif. Campus police pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting, authorities said. (Associated Press/Courtesy of David Steinman)

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D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander, Ward 7 Democrat, casts her vote at the Randle-Highlands Elementary School precinct in Southeast on Tuesday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Some disgruntled Louisiana educators are weighing a bid to recall Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, but no one in the governor's mansion is panicking. (Associated Press)

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Police investigators Tuesday walk out of Oikos University in Oakland, Calif. The suspect in a deadly shooting at the college Monday is an expelled nursing student who said he felt disrespected by teasing about his poor English. (Associated Press)

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The expulsion of Austin Carroll, 17, from school after he tweeted the F-word multiple times one night while fighting insomnia, is stirring a debate over how closely school officials can monitor students' non-school online activities. (Pam Smith via Associated Press)

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Washington Nationals starting pitcher Matt Purke (50) pitches against Georgetown University during spring training at Space Coast Stadium, Viera, Fla., Friday, March 2, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Maryland Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Garagiola, Montgomery County Democrat and candidate for Congress, is interviewed by a television crew at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Md., on April 3, 2012, the day of Maryland's primary election. Garagiola has been in a tight race with opponent John Delaney. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander, Ward 7 Democrat, casts her ballot at the Randle Highlands Elementary School in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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D.C. Council member Yvette Alexander arrives to vote at her Ward 7 precinct at Randle Highlands Elementary School in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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A desk serving as the "authorized poll watchers" station sits empty in the pre-dawn hours at Randle Highlands Elementary School precinct in Washington as the nation's capital holds its primary election on Tuesday, April 3, 2012. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Associated Press photographs A woman is comforted Monday after a shooter at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., killed at seven people and wounded three more. The school's founder said the shooter was a former nursing student.

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Police cover the bodies of shooting victims at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., after gunfire erupted at the school Monday morning. The suspect is an Asian male in his 40s who was taken into custody at a shopping center in the neighboring city of Alameda.

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Police cover the bodies of shooting victims at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., after gunfire erupted at the school Monday morning. The suspect is an Asian male in his 40s who was taken into custody at a shopping center in the neighboring city of Alameda. (Associated Press)

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A woman is comforted Monday after a shooter at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif., killed at seven people and wounded three more. The school's founder said the shooter was a former nursing student. (Associated Press)

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Andrew Luck is still finishing school, so he has not attended the Indianapolis Colts' mini-camp this week. (Associated Press)

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Sally Kim takes notes during a physics class at Columbia Independent School in Columbia, Mo., on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2012. Miss Kim's parents, who live in South Korea, sent her to live with relatives in Columbia for a better education that provides more collegiate opportunities. (AP Photo/Grant Hindsley)

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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., talks March 28, 2012, to students during his stop at the Boys Club in Sioux City, Iowa. (Associated Press/Sioux City Journal)

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FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2012 file photo, Minnesota Twins pitcher Carl Pavano works out during baseball spring training in Fort Myers, Fla. A high school classmate of Minnesota Twins pitcher Carl Pavano threatened to reveal an alleged homosexual relationship they had and to write a book about it unless Pavano apologized to him and bought him a navy Range Rover SUV with tan leather, according to a search warrant affidavit filed by police in Connecticut. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

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Madonna prepares to cut the ribbon at the October 2009 groundbreaking for the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls in Lilongwe, Malawi. Her foundation has since announced that instead of building the academy, it will donate money for 10 schools in the country. (Associated Press)