Education

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Rep. Peter T. King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, questions witnesses Abdirizak Bihi (left), director of the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center, and Melvin Bledsoe, whose son converted to Islam during college and left for Yemen, during a hearing on the radicalization of Muslim Americans on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, March 10, 2011. (Drew Angerer/The Washington Times)

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Kaya Henderson was named permanent chancellor of D.C. Schools, despite the absence of a national search to replace Michelle A. Rhee. (Rod Lamkey Jr./Special to The Washington Times)

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President Obama greets students Tuesday after speaking at TechBoston Academy in Massachusetts. He lauded the pilot school as a national example of successfully targeted investments and local flexibility. (Associated Press)

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D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray wants $76 million in new public school spending for the next fiscal year, but more budget cuts are possible. (Associated Press)

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Maryland head coach Gary Williams gestures during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Virginia, Saturday, March 5, 2011, in College Park, Md. Virginia won 74-60. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

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FILE - In a Jan. 15, 2011 file photo, Texas Tech coach Pat Knight, right, is held by assistant coach Stew Robinson after being called for a technical foul during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Kansas State, in Manhattan, Kan. 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/Orlin Wagner, File)

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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)