Education

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Students from a school adjacent to the hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela, fondly known as "Madiba", is said to be undergoing routine tests make their way past a giant get well card Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

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Tony Brown at the University of Missouri shows off applications he helped develop. Students who create something may face the burden of proving their work in no way benefited from the student being in college. (Associated Press)

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Yemeni students chant slogans calling on their president Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave the government and follow Tunisian ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali into exile during a protest Saturday in Sanaa, Yemen. (Associated Press)

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Kent Willis, head of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, said the First Amendment doesn't protect public schools. (Associated Press)

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"MIT is only a 2½-block walk to a lower economic neighborhood," Bill Cosby said. "Kids need to see more of this school and say, 'Yes, I can be part of this.'" (Associated Press)

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Mourners gather at a candlelight vigil honoring Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other victims of the recent shooting rampage took place in Tucson, Ariz., at Scripps College in Claremont , Calif., Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011. Mrs. Giffords graduated from Scripps College. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Students look out of their school's window at the site of a bomb explosion in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. The bomb exploded outside the school in a residential area of Peshawar city on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

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A student injured in a bomb explosion receives treatment at Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. The bomb exploded outside a school in a residential area of Peshawar city on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)

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A student injured in a bomb explosion receives treatment at Lady Reading hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. A bomb exploded outside a school in a residential area of Peshawar city on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding 14 others. (AP Photo/Mohammad Iqbal)

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Orthodox Jewish children gather outside a school in Beni Brak, Israel, on Thursday. Dramatic changes may be coming in Israel. Demographers now estimate about a third of last year's Jewish babies were born into the ultra-Orthodox community, an insular and devout minority that has long been at loggerheads with the rest of the increasingly modern and prosperous country. (Associated Press)

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Christy Westbrooks, whose daughter is a junior at Gardena High School, talks on the phone while standing outside the school in Gardena, Calif., on Tuesday. A gun in a 10th-grader's backpack accidentally discharged when he dropped the bag, wounding two students at the school, the campus principal said. (Associated Press)

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Police officers put yellow tape outside Gardena High School in Gardena, Calif., on Tuesday. Officers took a youth into custody and transported him to a police station while the school remained locked down. (Associated Press)

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A group of police officers stand Tuesday outside Gardena High School in Gardena, Calif., after reports of a number of students being wounded during a shooting. (Associated Press)

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This frame grab from video made available by ABC7.com, shows a person being taken into custody at Gardena High School in Gardena, Calif. According to officials, two students were wounded in a shooting at the high school. (AP Photo/ABC7.com)

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** FILE ** New York City Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, left, and Mayor Michael Bloomberg look over a classroom in P.S. 262 on her first day as chancellor in New York, on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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In this image taken from a YouTube video posted by Jared Lee Loughner and released by Pima Community College to the Associated Press , a campus books station is shown at Pima Community College, with the reflection of Loughner in Tucson, Ariz. The video shot by the suspected gunman in the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and others showed the former community college student touring campus at night and at times rambling about free speech and the Constitution. (AP Photo/Pima Community College)

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Children are evacuated from school due to flooding in Geraardsbergen, 25 miles south west of Brussels, Belgium, Friday Jan.14, 2011. Heavy rainfall is threatening flooding all over the country. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe)

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Ludlow Taylor Elementary School, about eight blocks from Union Station in Washington, is where hit man Oscar Veal stalked Roy Cobb on May 14, 1998, but opted not to kill him in front of his girlfriend's children. He admitted in court testimony to murdering Cobb weeks later. (J.M. Eddins/The Washington Times)

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Second-grader Jonathan Cheng (center) looks over fruits and vegetables in the cafeteria at Fairmeadow Elementary School in Palo Alto, Calif. School lunch rules proposed by the U.S. Agriculture Department would limit calories allowed in school meals while increasing whole grains, fruits and vegetables. (Associated Press)