Education

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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)

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Volunteer ships crew member Pete Moxon, center left, of Williamsburg, VA teaches 4th graders from James Polk Elementary School in Alexandria, VA how to navigate aboard the Godspeed. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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4th Graders Alhaji Conteh, left, and Alhaji Sesay, second from left, from James Polk Elementary School in Alexandria learn how to turn a sail with the help of their classmates aboard the Godspeed. (Andrew Harnik / The Washington Times)

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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)