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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)
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Mayor Vincent C. Gray speaks with students and supervisers working with the District Department of Transportation during an announcement of the completion of pay-by-phone parking across the District. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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** FILE ** Graduates listen to the commencement address at Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, Mich., in June 2011. (Associated Press)
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Redskins safety Oshiomogho Atogwe kept in shape by working out at a St. Charles, Mo., high school. Atogwe signed a five-year, $26 million deal in March. (Sid Hastings/Special To The Washington Times)
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Washington Redskins safety Oshiomogho Atogwe (center) enjoys a light moment working out with former St. Louis Rams safeties Corey Chavous (left) and Aeneas Williams at a high school in St. Charles, Mo. (Sid Hastings/Special To The Washington Times)
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Samuel Gottsegen, 17, recounts his experiences as one of the victims of a bear attack that occurred Saturday evening near Talkeetna, Alaska, as he recovers in an Anchorage, Alaska, hospital on Monday July 25, 2011. Gottsegen was taking part in an outdoor education course from the National Outdoor Leadership School. (AP Photo/Loren Holmes)
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A girl raises a bible above her head while marching with protesters against gay marriage in New York on Sunday. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Joe Zamecki protests outside a building where the Texas Board of Education was holding a meeting on Thursday.
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President Barack Obama greets members of the audience during his townhall at the Ritchie Coliseum on the campus of University of Maryland, Friday, July 22, 2011 in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Alaa Ahmed Hassan ties Anthony Gent's shoes during a soccer clinic at Cardozo High School in Washington, D.C. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
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Trying to beat the smothering heat, a worker takes a refreshment break from roofing Wiley Junior High School in University Hts., Ohio on Thursday, July 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
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Jalila Al Nuimi, 7, of the UAE women's national soccer team, raises her arms as kids from the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington approach her during a soccer clinic at Cardozo High School in Northwest Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. (Pratik Shah/The Washington Times)
