Education

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A soldier keeps guard near burned bodies and a smoldering vehicle at the scene of Tuesday's explosion in Mogadishu, Somalia, when a car laden with explosives blew up in front of the Ministry of Education. "The casualties are mostly students and parents who were waiting for results of scholarships," the government said. (Associated Press)

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High school students chant slogans outside the Greek Parliament during a protest in central Athens on Oct. 4, 2011. (Associated Press)

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Kitty Boitnott, president of the Virginia Education Association, says some teachers across the state have gone three years without a raise. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Mothers arrive to pick up their children from Flowers School in Montgomery, Ala. (Associated Press)

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Mothers arrive to pick up their children from Flowers School in Montgomery, Ala., Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Hispanic students have started vanishing from Alabama public schools in the wake of a court ruling that upheld the state's tough new law cracking down on illegal immigration. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

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A librarian at the Deanwood Neighborhood Library in D.C., talks June 16, 2011, to a group of kindergarten students from nearby Houston Elementary School about the Pledge of Allegiance. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)

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"Obama Grammar: Using the President's Bloopers to Improve Your English" was written by Harvard-educated historian William Proctor. (Provided by Inkslingers Press)

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Ashley Hendricks, a University of Alabama student from Huntsville, Ala., holds a sign and chants while protesting the state's immigration bill on Sept. 28, 2011. Hendricks was among approximately 40 students who gathered for a protest of the immigration bill on the school's campus in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Associated Press/Tuscaloosa News)

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President Obama arrives Sept. 28, 2011, to deliver his back-to school speech at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in D.C. (Associated Press)

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President Obama, accompanied by Education Secretary Arne Duncan (left), delivers his back-to school speech on Sept. 28, 2011, at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in D.C. (Associated Press)

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President Obama shakes hands at Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver on Tuesday. "He's a good president, but there's no jobs," a student said. (Associated Press)

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President Obama holds ups his proposed American Jobs Act legislation while speaking at Abraham Lincoln High School in Denver on Sept. 27, 2011. (Associated Press)

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'HAVE A HEART': Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican presidential hopeful, is taking some heat from conservatives over his position on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this 2011 file photo, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (left) voiced his support for President Obama's education reform proposal, which frees states from the "failing" schools designation and other mandates of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law. (Associated Press)

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A Hazmat team enters the Chemistry Building on the University of Maryland campus in College Park on Monday after an explosion and small fire injured two students in a lab. (Associated Press)

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The legacy of Doris "Granny D" Haddock will be preserved at the Keene State College library after the activist's family donated her journals, letters, photographs and memorabilia to the school. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** President Obama stands with educators and students as he speaks Sept. 23, 2011, at the White House about No Child Left Behind Reform. Also seen are Education Secretary Arne Duncan (left), Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (second from right) and Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee (right). (Associated Press)