Education

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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)

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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)