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New York City Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott answers reporters' questions Thursday after he was hastily appointed to the position of schools chancellor by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. Initial reaction to Mr. Walcott, who attended the city's public schools in his youth, was largely positive. Mr. Walcott's predecessor lasted fewer than 100 days before she was forced out. (Associated Press)
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A woman reacts outside a school after a shooting at the school in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday, April 7, 2011. Brazilian authorities say that a gunman opened fire in an elementary school in Rio de Janeiro and at least 13 people are dead, including the gunman. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
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Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi gave some advice to students at Rutgers: "Study hard, but party harder." (Associated Press)
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Butler students Margaret Seitz, left, and Chelsea Clevenger react to a Butler score, while watching the broadcast of Butler playing Connecticut in the NCAA Final Four basketball championship game at a viewing party at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Tom Strickland)
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Connecticut students celebrate in Storrs, Conn., after UConn beat Butler 53-41 in Houston in the championship game of the NCAA college basketball tournament Final Four, Monday, April 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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"Any reduction to the Pell program would come at a much higher cost for our country down the road," said Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat, admitting "tough budget decisions" are ahead. Education Secretary Arne Duncan projected that the Pell Grant program that helps low-income students afford college could face a $20 billion shortfall in 2012. (Associated Press)
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Chinese student Minzhe Zou answers a question in statistics class at Orono High School in Orono, Maine. (Associated Press)
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With Mount Katahdin rising in the background, a school bus makes its rounds in Millinocket, Maine, in 2011. The town's public high school is touting its natural resources in an effort to offset a dwindling population by recruiting foreign students. (Associated Press)
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NFL Vice President and former NFL player Troy Vincent, Sr. speaks to students about the dangers of steroid use as Congressman Elijah Cummings, D-Md center,, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell applaud Monday, April 4, 2011 at Woodlawn High School in Woodlawn, Md.(AP Photo/Gail Burton)
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Rep. John Kline, Minnesota Republican, is chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. (Associated Press)
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Former University of Houston basketball coach Guy V. Lewis listens as former player Clyde Drexler speaks during a reception held in his honor, Friday, April 1, 2011, at the school in Houston. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
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"The Routledge Handbook of Terrorism Research" provides findings from studies on terrorism and counterterrorism.
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Visitors at the American Museum of Science & Energy in Oak Ridge, Tenn., read text about the communities that were displaced to make way for the Manhattan Project. (Associated Press/American Museum of Science & Energy)
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Virginia Commonwealth University Rams head coach Shaka Smart (left) is greeted by VCU President Michael Rao (right) as he makes his way to the team bus for the VCU men's basketball team's departure from the Richmond campus on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, en route to the school's first appearance in the NCAA Final Four. VCU plays Butler University on Saturday evening in Houston. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Virginia Commonwealth University graduate students Marisa Cosco (left) and Carrie Newcomb (right) join in a cheer as the crowd waits for the VCU men's basketball team to depart from the campus in Richmond on Wednesday, March 30, 2011, en route to Houston for the NCAA Final Four tournament. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Virginia Commonwealth University graduate James Carter holds 6-year-old son Thomas while wife Enjoli cheers the departure of the VCU basketball team Wednesday for Houston and a Final Four appearance against Butler University. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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**FILE** House Speaker John A. Boehner, who attended Catholic schools, has made resurrecting the federally funded D.C. school-voucher program a legislative priority. (Associated Press)
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Eric Brown, left, a researcher for IBM, hosts a version of the television game show Jeopardy! between IBM's Watson computer and students from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh during a symposium on Watson, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Watson is the question-answering IBM computer that made headlines by competing against humans on the actual television game show. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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VCU graduate students Marisa Cosco (left) and Carrie Newcomb (right) join in a cheer as a crowd waits for the men's basketball team's departure from the Richmond campus Wednesday. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
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Speaking at a Semana de la Latina event Tuesday, University of Maryland senior Jacob Crider asks for support of a bill that would grant in-state tuition to many Maryland illegal immigrants. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
