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Keith Erickson plays with his 5-year-old daughter, Emily, as students andn parents arrive Monday morning.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS "It got down to monetary reasons more than anything else," said Larry Johnke, superintendent of the Irene-Wakonda School District in South Dakota, on going to a four-day school week. The savings will preserve a vocational education program.
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FILE - This March 13, 2011, file photo shows NCAA President Mark Emmert speaking at a news conference at the men's Final Four, in Houston. Emmert wants to make big changes, and he's asking schools to help. Emmert is to spend Tuesday and Wednesday, Aug. 9-10, 2011, meeting with more than five dozen university presidents and school administrators about the future of the NCAA.(AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
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In this photo photo Friday, Aug. 12, 2011, former Ohio State quarterback works out at Hempfield Area High School near Jeannette, Pa. The NFL announced Thursday, Aug. 18, 2011, that Pryor is eligible for its supplemental draft, but he won't be allowed to practice for the team that selects him until Week 6. (AP Photo/Post-Gazette, Barry Reeger)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Jared Cano, 17, faces charges in connection with a plot to to blow up his former high school on the first day of class next week. According to police, a confidential informant helped prevent "a potentially catastrophic event."
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Freedom High School in Tampa, Fla. is scheduled to open Tuesday. The suspect in a plot to bomb the school was expelled in April 2010 and would have been red-flagged if he tried to come back on campus, the principal said.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Students carry donated school supplies to a classroom on the first day of school at a temporary high school in a converted big-box store in Joplin, Mo. School opened nearly three months after a deadly tornado destroyed six schools and damaged four others while devastating one-third of the city.
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Juniors Cathrine Parry (left) and Allison Hankins compare schedules on the first day of school at a temporary high school in a converted big-box store in Joplin, Mo., on Aug. 17, 2011. (Associated Press)
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Students crisscross the campus of the University of Maryland at College Park. (The Washington Times) ** FILE **
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DAILY CALLER Patrick Schwarzenegger, the son of former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and his estranged wife, Maria Shriver, is doing modeling work while apparently mulling college.
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"She seems to be doing a pretty good job. She manages a really tight ship." Chester McKinley, Columbia Heights, musician and school teacher
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** FILE ** This undated file image released by the University of North Dakota shows the school's Fighting Sioux logo. (AP Photo/University of North Dakota via The Dickinson Press, File)
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan (left) and Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, a Republican, take part in an education forum on Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Duncan plans to reward states, among them Tennessee, with waivers from the No Child Left Behind education law. (Associated Press)
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"Such a waiver would allow Minnesota educators to focus on what is working in their schools," Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton said.
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House pages cluster around President Obama before his State of the Union speech In January. After nearly 200 years, the House program is ending. The high school students served as messengers for lawmakers while getting a front-row seat to learn about Congress. (Associated Press)
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"We can't sit here in Washington and turn a deaf ear to what's going on around the country. Right now, Congress is pretty disfunctional. They're not getting stuff done." - Education Secretary Arne Duncan
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CONSULTANT: Ashton Carter, the Pentagon's top weapons buyer, earned money from the defense industry while teaching at Harvard. (Associated Press)
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Ms. Wilson, a resident of the District of Columbia, awaits the starting sign for her swimming competition. Ruth Dunkle, a professor and gerontologist at the University of Michigan's School of Social Work, argues that a healthy lifestyle coupled with good genes keeps people living longer.
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photograph provided by Christopher Rueth “I certainly did have the plan to go off to college, until I realized that I didn't fit in. I never really fit in in high school. I was always 'that hacker kid.' In the right situation, and if someone can afford it, college can be the right direction. But if you're a nonconformist, you're just not going to be happy there.” @PullQuoteSig:-Christopher Rueth, a 17-year-old San Diego native, who passed on college for $100,000 to work on wireless Internet technology as part of the 20 Under 20 grant
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Silver Spring resident Wendy Hercules, 16, speaks in support of a lawsuit filed by immigrant advocacy group Casa de Maryland that claims elections officials erroneously validated many signatures that helped send Maryland's Dream Act to referendum. The law would allow some illegal immigrants to receive tuition breaks. (Associated Press)
