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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan delivers a speech during the Puerto Rico Education Summit in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)
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Historian and school teacher Eleni Nikolaidou provides tips on frugal living in ''Starvation Recipes,'' a book targeted toward the millions Greeks who have found themselves in an new age of hardship. (Associated Press)
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Local S.W.A.T. team members congregate near a parking lot on the campus of Virginia Tech to look for an armed man who is suspected of killing two people, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, in Blacksburg, Va. The school said a police officer pulled someone over for a traffic stop and was shot and killed. The shooter ran toward a nearby parking lot, where a second person was found dead. It was the first gunfire on campus since 33 people were killed in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The deaths came on the same day university officials were in Washington appealing a fine that federal officials gave them over the school's response five years ago. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)
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Police officials examine the body of a police officer shot to death in a parking lot on the campus of Virginia Tech, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, in Blacksburg, Va. The school said a police officer pulled someone over for a traffic stop and was shot and killed. The shooter ran toward a nearby parking lot, where a second person was found dead. It was the first gunfire on campus since 33 people were killed in 2007 in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The deaths came on the same day university officials were in Washington appealing a fine that federal officials gave them over the school's response five years ago. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)
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** FILE ** An emergency post stands in the parking lot of the parking lot for Cassell Coliseum and Lane Stadium (visible behind) on the campus of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Va., Thursday, April 19, 2007. Thirty three students were killed at the university when South Korean gunman Cho Seung-Hui opened fire on campus Monday, April 16. (Allison Shelley/The Washington Times)
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Penn State President Rodney Erickson speaks at a town hall forum organized by students at the university's main campus, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011, in State College, Pa. (AP Photo/John Beale)
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President Obama gestures while speaking about the economy on Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011, at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kan. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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"I don't have any reservation in saying at this stage that the District of Columbia is an absolute leader in early-childhood education," D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray said. (Associated Press)
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A textbook used in the Georgetown University class called Sociology of Hip Hop: Jay-Z praises the rapper as a "philosopher king." (Associated Press)
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Associated Press photographs Fairway, Kan., high school senior Emma Sullivan displays the text of a tweet she sent after listening to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (above) speak to a group of students last week. After posting the tweet, Emma was called into the principal's office and ordered to write an apology to Mr. Brownback, but instead he offered an apology for his staff's reaction to the tweet.
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Associated Press Kansas high school senior Emma Sullivan's contribution to expressive freedom amounted to the digital equivalent of taunts scrawled on a bathroom wall, but became a Free Speech cause celebre overnight.
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan says "children who need more are getting less." A new report found inequitable Title 1 funding between poorer schools and wealthier ones. (Associated Press)
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President Obama speaks at Scranton High School in Scranton, Pa., on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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**FILE** Wang Chengdong, a Chinese student in the Executive MBA program, works June 28, 2011, in a library study room at Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo. (Associated Press/The News-Leader)
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** FILE ** In this Nov. 22, 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama gestures while speaking at Central High School in Manchester, N.H. The failure of Congress' supercommittee adds a new dimension to the 2012 political contests by drawing political battle lines around broad tax increases and massive spending cuts that are now scheduled to begin automatically in 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
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** FILE ** Cheerleaders from the Alabama's Homewood High School Patriot Band march and cheer during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Cheerleaders from the Alabama's Homewood High School Patriot Band march and cheer during Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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** FILE ** In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, file image from Egyptian state television, three American students are displayed to the camera by Egyptian authorities following their arrest during protests in Cairo, where an Egyptian official said they were throwing firebombs at security forces. A spokeswoman for the American University in Cairo identified the students as Luke Gates, a 21-year-old Indiana University student from Bloomington, Ind.; Derrik Sweeney, a 19-year-old Georgetown University student from Jefferson City, Mo.; and Gregory Porter, a 19 year-old Drexel University student from Glenside, Pa. (AP Photo/Egyptian TV, File)
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Coolidge High School Football Coach Natalie Randolph talks with a former student in the coaches locker room before going out to practice with her team to get ready for the Turkey Bowl, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
