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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)
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Fatou Sylla works on a car engine. Five other women started mechanic school with her and her cousin but "got married." (Associated Press)
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University of Manchester professors Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, right, awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics pose for pictures outside Manchester University, Manchester, England, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Jon Super).
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** FILE ** In this Sept. 28, 2010, photo, President Obama shakes hands as he arrives at a rally on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo)
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In this photo taken Sept. 18, 2010, U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler (D-Waynesville), second from left, coaches the Transylvania Jr. Pee Wee Ravens at halftime during the team's first game at Erwin High School in Asheville, N.C. Shuler's son, Navy, 9, also plays on the team. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** People participate in a candlelight vigil for Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi at Brower Commons on the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, N.J., on Oct. 3, 2010. Mr. Clementi jumped to his death off a bridge a day after two classmates surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it over the Internet. (Associated Press)
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Rutgers University students sign condolence cards Friday, Oct. 1, 2010, in New Brunswick, N.J., for the family of fellow student Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide apparently after his roommate allegedly broadcast video of his having sex with another man. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
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In this Sept. 7, 2010, photo, University of Michigan alumnus and assistant attorney general Andrew Shirvell speaks about the University of Michigan's student assembly president Chris Armstrong at a Michigan Student Assembly meeting in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/The Michigan Daily, Marissa McClain)
