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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)
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Congress wants to keep french fries and other favorites on school lunch lines, fighting back against an Obama administration proposal to make the lunches healthier. (Associated Press)
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Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley speaks about security in the post-9/11 America in the Stamp Student Union at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. on Oct. 11, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/ The Washington Times)
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University of Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson says no final decisions have been made regarding how many and which varsity teams could be abolished at the school by July because of funding problems. (Associated Press)
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A man displays a sign before an NCAA college football game between Nebraska and Penn State Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, in State College, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Michelle Hartman works with her elementary students at a Plantation, Fla. school. Teachers, who have historically been paid less than other professionals, have long found themselves taking second jobs. The high numbers raise long simmering questions about elevating the teaching status in the United States, and what the impact is for students in the classroom. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)
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Penn State University Board of Trustees member Kenneth C. Frazier, President of Merck & Co., is surrounded by media after being appointed by the trustees to chair a special committee to investigate the alleged child abuse on campus, in State College, Pa., Friday, Nov. 11, 2011. The Penn State University Board of Trustees who fired legendary football coach Joe Paterno and school president Graham Spanier are meeting in the wake of the massive shakeup prompted by a child sex-abuse scandal.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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John Surma, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Penn State University Board of Trustees, center, answers questions after announcing the firing of university President Graham Spanier, and football coach Joe Paterno in State College, Pa.,Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2011. At left is Steve Garban, senior vice-president for finance and operations. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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HONOR GUARD: Alexander Hubichi (from left), Matthew Cranford, Thomas Shedlick, and Matthew Shipley, Army JROTC cadets at St. John's College High School, carry the colors Thursday at the District of Columbia War Memorial. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)
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A man is taken into police custody early Thursday morning in State College, Pa., after Penn State students took to the streets to protest the firing of football coach Joe Paterno. The university's board of trustees dismissed Mr. Paterno and President Graham Spanier at a Wednesday night news conference.
