Education

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Thousands of high school students and citizens march in the streets of Ankara, the Turkish capital, on Thursday to denounce the killing of 24 soldiers by Kurdish rebels as the military pressed ahead with its air and ground offensive against the insurgents across the Iraqi border. (Associated Press)

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Maryland's Sean Mosley hangs on the rim during the NCAA college basketball Midnight Madness festivities Friday, Oct. 14, 2011, in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, speaks during a discussion by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions of legislation for the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act, on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Republican, introduced the amendment to block the U.S. Department of Agriculture from limiting potatoes or other vegetables in school lunches. She cited additional costs on school districts that would result. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama speaks Oct. 17, 2011, at West Wilkes High School in Millers Creek, N.C., where his three-day bus tour promoting the American Jobs Act made a stop. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Students at Northeast Elementary Magnet School in Danville, Ill., enjoy the playground during a physical education class. (Associated Press)

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Charter-school executive Jerry Lewis is challenging Arizona state Senate President Russell Pearce in a Nov. 8 recall election. Both men are Mormon Republicans competing in a GOP district dominated by conservative Mormons. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat, as chairman of the education panel had promised a reform bill in the spring. He is expected to present his plan Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks Oct. 7, 2011, during the Johnson County GOP Fall BBQ at Clear Creek-Amana High School in Tiffin, Iowa. (Associated Press)

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during the Johnson County GOP Fall BBQ at Clear Creek-Amana High School, on Oct. 7, 2011, in Tiffin, Iowa. (Associated Press)

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From left: Cindy Kane, Derek Hills, Amy Saidman, Stephanie Garibaldi, Alex Petri and Kristala Pouncy listen as Brian Leonard recounts an experience of diving in shark-infested waters to a class meeting of SpeakeasyDC students in preparation Sunday for performances later in the month at Dance Place in Washington. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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The Rev. Scott Anderson gives the benediction at the end of his ordination ceremony in Madison, Wis., on Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011. Mr. Anderson is the first openly gay person to be ordained to the ministry in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the nation's largest Presbyterian church. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, Craig Schreiner)

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In this photo taken Sept. 28, 2011, Ronald Reagan Elementary second-grader Calvin Gibbens counts the days of the month with his classmates in the Special Education class for autistic children at the Nampa, Idaho school. (AP Photo/Idaho Press-Tribune, Greg Kreller)

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A coalition of students and their supporters from New York University and The New School chant "show me what democracy looks like" as they march towards Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan during the Occupy Wall Street protests on Oct. 5, 2011. (Associated Press)

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A girl peeks out of a window of her school in Kandahar, Afghanistan. The Taliban denied schooling to girls, so progress has been made, but the school director says his life is constantly in danger.

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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, Class of 1986, leaves Gonzaga College High School with Kevin Clark, a University of Virginia student and fellow Gonzaga graduate who helped bring the state's top prosecutor to the school. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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An Indian student poses with the supercheap Aakash tablet computer, which she received during its launch in New Delhi on Oct. 5, 2011. The $35 basic touch screen tablet aimed at students can be used for functions like word processing, web browsing and video conferencing. (Associated Press)