Education

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Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

President Obama gestures Nov. 22, 2011, as he heads to shake hands with the crowd at Central High School in Manchester, N.H., following an address where he remarked on the American Jobs Act. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks Nov. 22, 2011, about jobs at Manchester High School Central in Manchester, N.H. (Associated Press)

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READY TO FIGHT: Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, says recent elections sent a message: "You cannot turn your back on the middle class." (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Dennis Van Roekel is president of the National Education Association. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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University of Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson (left) and UM President Wallace D. Loh announce Nov. 21, 2012, at a press conference on the campus that the university will cut eight sports teams on July 1 if they cannot raise private funds. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

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Protesters confront police in a vehicle spraying water during a protest Friday in Santiago demanding education reform.

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People march through the streets of Valparaiso, Chile, last week demanding education reform. The sign at bottom translates to "Put an end to profits! Free education now!" (Associated Press)

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The force of a water cannon pushes back students in Santiago seeking education reform. Chile's schools were free to all students until the regime of Augusto Pinochet, which cleared the way for more private universities and a voucher system that directs billions in public funds to privately run high schools.

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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks Nov. 21, 2011, at a town meeting at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. (Associated Press)

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University of California, Davis Police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray to move Occupy UC Davis protesters while blocking their exit from the school's quad in Davis, Calif., on Nov. 18, 2011. Two campus police officers involved in the pepper-spraying incident were placed on administrative leave two days later. (Associated Press/The Enterprise)

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In this image made from video, a police officer uses pepper spray as he walks down a line of Occupy demonstrators sitting on the ground at the University of California, Davis on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. The video - posted on YouTube - was shot Friday as police moved in on more than a dozen tents erected on campus and arrested 10 people, nine of them students. (AP Photo/Thomas K. Fowler)

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In this image made from video, a police officer uses pepper spray as he walks down a line of Occupy demonstrators sitting on the ground at the University of California, Davis on Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. The video - posted on YouTube - was shot Friday as police moved in on more than a dozen tents erected on campus and arrested 10 people, nine of them students. (AP Photo/Thomas K. Fowler)

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**FILE** Javonte Robinson (right), 4, looks in on his 2-month-old cousin, Bre'Azia Aaliyah Bryant, as she rests with her mother, Gautier High School student Jasmine Jones, 18, at her house in Gautier, Miss. (Associated Press/The Sun Herald)

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Students clash with police during a demonstration in Milan, Italy, on Nov. 17, 2011. University students protested in Milan and Rome against budget cuts and a lack of jobs, hours before new Italian Premier Mario Monti reveals his anti-crisis strategy in Parliament. (Associated Press)

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University of California, Berkeley student Anastasia Somkin dances to music in the Occupy Cal campsite in Sproul Plaza on the campus of University of California, Berkeley on Nov. 16, 2011, in Berkeley, Calif. (Associated Press)

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A University of California, Berkeley policeman stands guard at the Haas School of Business in Berkeley, Calif., on Nov. 15, 2011. A man with a gun was shot by police earlier that day inside the business school, after hundreds of students and anti-Wall Street activists descended on the campus for a day of protests about a half-mile away. (Associated Press)