Education

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Poll worker Wendy Wurlitzer checks the voter registration rolls as Rep. Eric Cantor and his wife, Diana, vote at Rivers Edge Elementary School on Tuesday.

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Morgan Griffith, Republican congressional candidate (center), greets a voter Tuesday morning at Van Pelt Elementary School in Bristol, Va.

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Sharron Angle, the GOP Senate candidate, reminds the media that voting is supposed to be private as she casts her vote in Reno on Tuesday. Mrs. Angle's gaffes included her remark to Hispanic high school students that some of them looked Asian and that the 9/11 terrorists entered through the Canadian border.

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Illustration: Dog ate the homework

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New Jersey state Sen. Barbara Buono stands with other lawmakers in Trenton as she answers a question Monday about a bill they introduced to toughen the state's anti-bullying laws after the widely publicized suicide of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi. The bipartisan group of lawmakers touted the "anti-bullying bill of rights" targeting public schools and colleges. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: Ronald Reagan

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**FILE** Bedbugs crawl on paper in a jar at a pest-control convention at Rutgers University. (Associated Press)

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Dale Robbins, an associate superintendent at Gwinnett County Public Schools in Georgia, cheers the announcement of the Broad Prize for Urban Education with Celeste Strohl and Carol Grady (right). (Gwinnett Daily Post via Associated Press)

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Delaware candidates for Senate Christine O'Donnell and Chris Coons debate at Widener Law School in Wilmington on Tuesday. At one point, Ms. O'Donnell questioned whether the First Amendment stipulates separation of church and state. (Associated Press)

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D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee (right) accompanied by City Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray and Deputy Chancellor Kaya Henderson, announced Wednesday that she is resigning. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2006 file photo, students eat lunch at Pleasant View Middle School in Springfield, Tenn. The U.S. government is trying new approaches to get kids to choose healthier foods. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

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An artist's rendering released by the University of Mississippi shows the Rebel Black Bear. The school announced on Thursday that students at the school have picked the Rebel Black Bear as their new mascot. (Associated Press)

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The U.S. government is trying new approaches to get students to choose healthier foods. It is giving $2 million to food-behavior scientists to find ways to use psychology to improve youngsters' use of the federal school lunch program and fight obesity. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Mary Ann Vecchio gestures and screams as she kneels by the body of a student lying face down on the campus of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, on May 4, 1970. (AP Photo/John Filo)

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A portrait of Sladjana Vidovic, who committed suicide in 2008, sits in the living room of her family's home in Mentor, Ohio, on Sept. 1. Sladjana was one of four Mentor High School teenagers who died within 2½ years. Friends and family say bullying drove most of them to kill themselves. (Associated Press)

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French teacher Justin Lyot (left) talks to Roma children, including Abel Bot, 8, (center) as they leave school in Choisy-le-Roi, France. Education woes include segregated schools in Eastern Europe and the systematic misdiagnosis of mental disabilities. (Associated Press)

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A Roma child (foreground) and other schoolmates leave their school in Choisy-le-Roi, France, south of Paris. For Europe's 10 million to 12 million Roma, as Gypsies are also known, a central factor in their impoverishment is poor access to education, with problems ranging from late starts to early dropouts. (Associated Press)

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In this Handout image made available by Meridian School on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, U.S. actor Johnny Depp, left, holds a letter from 5 year old Bea Delap, right, inviting him to attend her school assembly. Depp, dressed as the character Jack Sparrow from the Pirate of the Caribbean films, attended the school Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010, after receiving the letter from the school girl in which she declared herself and her classmates to be budding pirates and inviting him into school to support a mutiny. (AP Photo/Meridian School, HO)

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The American Civil Liberties Union filed a request for an injunction in federal court in Raleigh, N.C., on Wednesday on behalf of Ariana Iacono, 14, who was suspended from high school over her nose piercing. (Associated Press)

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Religious students forced to beg by their Koranic teacher ask for change from cars on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal. Senegal's government said that it is stepping up its campaign against begging in the streets of the capital, where tens of thousands of children can be seen wandering barefoot and swarming cars for change. (Associated Press)