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Actor Jack Black, center front, poses for pictures with students from Parkside Elementary and Kipp Elementary schools in Atlanta, during a naming ceremony for a 3-month-old giant panda cub born at the Atlanta Zoo Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2011 in Atlanta. Black who is promoting his animated film, "Kung Fu Panda II", posed for pictures with the cub, who is the only giant panda born at a U.S. zoo last year. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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EDUCATION INITIATIVE: President Obama visits teacher Susan Yoder's science class at Parkville Middle School and Center of Technology in Parkville, Md., on Monday. Mr. Obama's $3.7 trillion fiscal 2012 budget boosts overall education spending by 11 percent. (Associated Press)
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President Obama reaches to shake hands with eighth-graders as he speaks at Parkville Middle School and Center of Technology in Parkville, Md., on Monday, Feb., 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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In this Feb. 10, 2011 photo, Oliver Hamilton, 17, top, poses for a photograph with classmates Daniel Alexander, 18, left, Robert Kline, 18, bottom, and Rayhannah Dar, 18, at The Urban School of San Francisco in San Francisco. To get his classmates to appreciate how serious the HIV virus really is, one senior at a San Francisco high school is taking an uncommon approach: He's organized a classwide HIV testing day in the school gym. (AP Photo)
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Associated Press photographs Noah Hixon, a fourth-grader at the New Sweden Consolidated School in New Sweden, Maine, cross-country skis during a physical education class.
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President Obama speaks at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, Mich., on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Carlos Mario Gonzalez, 16, who was a sophomore at Cathedral High School in El Paso, Texas, was one of three U.S. students who were killed by unknown gunmen on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011, outside a car dealership across the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. (AP Photo/Cathedral High School)
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New Vista Middle School students from Pasadena, Calif., gaze at the large underbelly and wheel of Air Force One in the Air Force One Pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif. (Garrett Cheen/Special to The Washington Times)
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Bob Hurley, left, head coach of the St. Anthony High School boys' basketball team, gestures as he and his wife, Chris Hurley, are congratulated for Bob Hurley's 1,000 career coaching victory, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, in Jersey City, N.J. St. Anthony beat St. Mary's 76-46. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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New D.C. Council Chairman Kwame R. Brown says he is "all in" when it comes to policies designed to improve a child's academic lot in public school. (Rod Lamkey Jr./Special to The Washington Times)
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Somali women sew as part of free education offered by the Hawa Abdi hospital. Dr. Abdi has offered tens of thousands of people refuge on her 150-square-mile farm. (Associated Press)
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Auburn coach Gene Chizik talks on the phone with quarterback Kiehl Frazier, a recruit from Shiloh Christian High School in Springdale Ark., on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2011, in Auburn, Ala., after Frazier sent in his paperwork to play NCAA college football and attend Auburn on national signing day.(AP Photo/Todd J. Van Emst)
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Snow falls on the empty University of Missouri quadrangle on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2011, in Columbia, Mo. The university closed on Tuesday because of an approaching blizzard. (AP Photo/L.G. Patterson)
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Zuzana Balazova, a Roma and a teacher at the University of Central Europe in Skalica, western Slovakia (Associated Press)
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Beaver Island Lighthouse School valedictorian Katie Daugherty (center) celebrates graduation with fellow students including, Micah Braden (right). Many students at the school see it as their last chance to get a diploma. (Associated Press)
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Taylor Fisher looks out onto Lake Michigan on the last day of the semester in December. "Out here, we call the mainland 'America,'" said Mr. Fisher, who transformed himself from a high school dropout to class president. (Associated Press)
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Penn State's Jeff Brooks (25) and Wisconsin's Keaton Nankivil go after a loose ball in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in State College, Pa., Saturday Jan. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/John Beale)
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Former Concord High School student Kelly Garfield, who had Christa McAuliffe as a homeroom teacher, stands Friday, Jan. 28, 2011, in Concord, N.H., at her gravesite at 11:38, 25-years after the shuttle Challenger exploded, killing McAuliffe and the rest of the crew. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)
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University of Iowa Director of Football Operations Paul Federici speaks during a news conference at Carver Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa, on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. The university confirmed Wednesday that 13 football players were hospitalized this week with an unusual muscle disorder following grueling offseason workouts. The players have rhabdomyolysis, a stress-induced syndrome that can damage cells and cause kidney failure in severe cases, school spokesman Tom Moore said. At left is Biff Poggi, father of player Jim Poggi. (AP Photo/Ryan J. Foley)
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In this image made available by Liverpool Hope University, Wednesday Jan. 26, 2011, former Miss Canada finalist Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy poses next to the Penny Lane street sign in Liverpool, England, after becoming the first person in the world to graduate with a Masters degree in The Beatles. Zahalan-Kennedy, 53, was one of the first students to sign up for the course on the Beatles when it launched at the university in March 2009. Twelve full-time students joined the Master of Arts course in The Beatles, Popular Music and Society that year and Mary-Lu is the first from her class to graduate.(AP Photo/Alan Edwards, Liverpool Hope University, ho) EDITORIAL USE ONLY:
