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FILE - In a Feb. 15, 2011 file photo, Texas Tech head coach Pat Knight holds the ball as he questions a call during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Missouri, in Columbia, Mo. Texas Tech has fired coach Pat Knight. School spokesman Blayne Beal said Monday, March 7, 2011 that Knight will coach the Red Raiders at this week's Big 12 tournament and then will step down. Knight is in his third year as head coach. He took over the program from his famous father, Bob Knight, midseason in February 2008. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson, File)
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'PUSHED' FAR ENOUGH: Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, said further domestic spending cuts would put "more kids out of school." (Associated Press)
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President Barack Obama speaks at Miami Central Senior High School in Miami, Friday, March. 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Steve Mitchell)
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Fans look on as trainers and coaches try to revive Fennville High School basketball player Wes Leonard after the Michigan star player collapsed after making a game-winning layup in overtime against Bridgman, in Fennville, Mich. , Thursday night, March 3, 2011. Leonard later died. (AP Photo/The Holland Sentinel, Dennis Geppert)
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**FILE** Four teachers help 20 students prepare for the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test by giving them reading strategies at Miami Central Senior High School in Miami on Feb. 27, 2009. (Associated Press/The Miami Herald)
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Darul Uloom in Deoband, northern India, whose Koranic interpretations inspired the Taliban, is one of the world's most revered schools of Islamic learning and a beacon for others around the world. (Associated Press)
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Ghulam Mohammed Vastanvi (center) is welcomed Feb. 24 as the new leader of India's Darul Uloom Islamic seminary. (Associated Press)
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Islamic students hold placards welcoming Mr. Vastanvi as they await his arrival Feb. 24 in Ahmadabad, India. The council that hired him in January is already considering his dismissal. (Associated Press)
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The Colonial-style home at 4618 Warren St. NW in the American University Park neighborhood is on the market for $1,049,000. The 1939 home was expanded in 2004.
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Businesses solicit prospective employees as students fill out job applications during the Springfield Collegiate Career Job Fair at the University of Illinois at Springfield, Ill., on Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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Alexandra decided that selling her eggs to a fertility clinic was the perfect way to get money for her college tuition. But then "things went south," she recalls in the documentary "Eggsploitation." (Courtesy of eggsploitation.com)
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Shakira, Colombian born Grammy-winning singer and songwriter, talks with Harvard reacts to a performance, by student at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, where she was named the Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
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Shakira, center, Colombian born Grammy-winning singer and songwriter, sings one of her songs with members of the Harvard Ballroom Dance Team after the team's performance at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011, where Shakira was named the Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)
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Rescue workers work to extinguish a fire at a collapsed building of King's Education in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. A powerful earthquake collapsed buildings at the height of a busy workday killing and trapping dozens of people in one of the country's worst natural disasters. In the collapsed King's Education building, several among a group of 23 Japanese exchange students and teachers were still unaccounted for. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell)
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Rescue workers and a helicopter work to extinguish a fire at a collapsed building of King's Education in central Christchurch, New Zealand, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2011. A powerful earthquake collapsed buildings at the height of a busy workday killing at least 65 people and trapping dozens in one of the country's worst natural disasters. Several among a group of 23 Japanese exchange students and teachers at King's Education were still unaccounted for. (AP Photo/New Zealand Herald, Mark Mitchell)
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Yemeni policemen push back government supporters raising posters showing President Ali Abdullah Saleh as they shout at anti-government demonstrators (not pictured) in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Some 3,000 students protesting at Sanaa University in the Yemeni capital sought to oust longtime President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key U.S. ally in the fight against al Qaeda, and have been inspired by uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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Thomas H. Kunz, of Boston University takes part in a panel discussion on the use of radar to study bats, Friday, Feb. 18, 2011, during the the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Students from McFarland High School in McFarland, Wis., join opponents of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill during evening demonstrations at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011. (AP Photo/Wisconsin State Journal, John Hart)
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Pennsylvania's Central Bucks East High School teacher Natalie Munroe, suspended for profanity-laced posts on her blog, says she was emphatically stating the truth about rude students not willing to work hard in school. (Associated Press)
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Central Bucks, Pa., East High School teacher Natalie Munroe is seen during a phone interview at her attorneys office in Feasterville, Pa., Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011. Munroe, suspended from her job over profanity-laced posts on her blog, says she was speaking the truth about students who are unwilling to work hard at school. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
