Education

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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:

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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)