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Coolidge High School's starting quarterback Femi Bamiro, left, and backup QB Darius Taylor, right, warm up before practice, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. Coach Natalie Randolph gets her team ready for the Turkey Bowl. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Coolidge High School Football Coach Natalie Randolph gets her team ready for the Turkey Bowl, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Coolidge High School Football Coach Natalie Randolph heads to the field for practice to get her team ready for the Turkey Bowl, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Coolidge High School Football Coach Natalie Randolph sits 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)
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Coolidge High School Football Coach Natalie Randolph gives direction to Dayon Pratt, left, during practice in preparation for the Turkey Bowl, Washington, DC, Monday, November 21, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Coolidge High School football coach Natalie Randolph (top) watches Dayon Pratt run the ball against the team's linebackers during a practice for the Turkey Bowl. The coach (left) sees to it that her student-athletes are successful in the classroom as well. She holds study halls for her players four times a week. The team's grade-point average has improved from last year. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Coolidge High School varsity football coach Natalie Randolph is in her second year of coaching and some of the novelty of a woman heading a boys football team has worn off. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Coolidge High School varsity football coach Natalie Randolph (background) watches her players during a drill in preparation for the Turkey Bowl against Dunbar High School. She's in her second year of coaching and some of the novelty of a woman heading a boys football team has worn off. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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Iranians form a human chain this month around the Isfahan uranium conversion facility to urge their government to block international inspectors. More than 2,000 university students turned out for the demonstration, saying they were ready to sacrifice themselves to defend their country's nuclear rights, according to state media. (Associated Press)
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Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)
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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)
