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Israeli Arab Maram Faour, a teacher from the Arab town of Kabul, teaches a class in the Arabic language to Israeli schoolchildren in a school in Yokneam. A growing number of Israeli schools are hiring Arab teachers. Educators say they hope to break down barriers in a society where Jewish and Arab citizens have little day-to-day interaction and often view each other with suspicion. (Associated Press)
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"Right now, there are no real incentives to dissuade colleges and universities from continuing to raise tuition. It's not going to be easy, but there's no excuse for complacency," Vice President Joseph R. Biden told high school students in Florida this month. (Florida Times-Union via Associated Press)
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"I am gratified that the Legislature removed the definition of public employer from the bill, which included institutions of higher education, in favor of a definition of public employees that makes no specific reference to university employees," said Gov. Rick Snyder, Michigan Republican. (Associated Press)
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"No one is immune from the waves of change. ...We are witnessing something that is transformative and whose full impact will play out over years, maybe decades, ahead." - Nicholas Burns, a professor of diplomacy and international politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a former No. 3 official at the State Department
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Air Force Brigadier General Select Peter Masciola head home after surprising his 10 year old son Kevin, left, and 12 year old daughter Tamara, center, at their school, Saint Columbus School, by coming home for Christmas after a 6 month deployment outside Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, December 19, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Air Force Brigadier General Select Peter Masciola head home after surprising his 10 year old son Kevin and 12 year old daughter Tamara at their school, Saint Columbus School, by coming home for Christmas after a 6 month deployment outside Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, December 19, 2011. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)
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Celestial McBride, 14, and her 12-year-old brother, Sevan, take classes at the Florida Virtual School from their Mims, Fla., home. More children than ever are taking classes online, but some educators are raising questions about virtual learning. (Associated Press)
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Friday is the last day to see Hong Seon Jang's exhibit — Sugar High — at the University of Maryland's Stamp Student Union.
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a GOP presidential hopeful, is seen through a window on a door as he spoke to students at the University of Iowa College of Public Health in Iowa City on Wednesday. Mr. Gingrich has been criticized for a $500,000 jewelry bill at Tiffany's. (Associated Press)
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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.
