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Mathematics teacher Jose Infante shows the perfume used to attract jaguars as part of the project. The scent seems to make some cats pause, but apparently sent one jaguar into a frenzy. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS In an undated photo provided by Georgia Southern University, graduate student Kevin Chapman (left) surveys the site of Camp Lawton, a Civil War prison, while students dig in a trench in search of artifacts. The team has found some, including a bronze buckle used to fasten tourniquets during amputations.
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Tom McBride (left) and Ron Nief have been assembling the Beloit College Mindset List for 13 years to remind teachers about a generation gap in cultural references. (Beloit College via Associated Press)
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Clint Eastwood was best known as "Dirty Harry" in 1975, but students in the class of 2014 consider him more of a sensitive Hollywood director than an actor with hard-core roles. (Associated Press)
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Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (AP Photo)
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In a Sunday, July 18, 2010 photo, Alvin Greene, Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, makes his first public speech at Manning Junior High School, in Manning, S.C. Greene was indicted Friday, August 13, 2010 on two charges, including a felony charge of showing pornography to a South Carolina college student. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)
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Alex Winter, 20, a student at the University of Pennsylvania, visit the website Ultrinsic, an online site for students to gamble on their grades, Tuesday August 10, 2010, in New York. Winter, from Greenwich Village, N.Y., can place place wagers on his grades after uploading his class schedule and allowing the site access to his school record. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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President Barack Obama, followed by teachers and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, walks to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, to urge the House to pass legislation that could help keep 160,000 educators on the job. From left are: Shannon Lewis, of Romney, W. Va., who was a special education instructor who lost her job in June when her position was cut due to lack of funding, Duncan, and Rachel Martin who taught kindergarten in Richton Park, Ill. until she was laid off in March. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by teachers, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, to urge the House to pass legislation that could help keep 160,000 educators on the job. From left are: Shannon Lewis, of Romney, W. Va., who was a special education instructor who lost her job in June when her position was cut due to lack of funding, Duncan, the president, and Rachel Martin who taught kindergarten in Richton Park, Ill. until she was laid off in March. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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President Barack Obama delivers remarks on teachers jobs and House bill H.R. 1586 Education Jobs and Medicaid Assistance Act in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on August 10, 2010. Obama was joined by Education Secretary Arne Duncan. UPI/Kevin Detsch
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President Barack Obama speaks about teacher jobs, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. Educator Rachel Martin is in the foreground. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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President Obama, followed by (from left) Education Secretary Arne Duncan and educators Rachel Martin and Shannon Lewis, walks to the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Dave Ebersbach at his home Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, in Bowling Green, Ohio. Ebersbach, 43, is one of 14 math teachers in the Toledo, Ohio, school district to receive notice a few weeks ago that their jobs were cut. Congress is moving rapidly just weeks before the start of the school year to speed billions of dollars in emergency education aid to states in hopes of reversing the layoffs of tens of thousands of teachers. (AP Photo/J.D. Pooley)
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Coolidge high school head football head coach Natalie Randolph, left, works with her team at football practice, Friday, Aug. 6, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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Students walk by burning debris set afire in protest of the Haitian government's lack of help to rebuild the area after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Education is one of the areas Haitian candidate for president Wyclef Jean hopes to improve. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Abortion (after Da Vinci)
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President Barack Obama reads to students at Long Branch Elementary School in Arlington, Va., Friday, Dec. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Minnesota Viking quarterback Brett Favre passes to an Oak Grove High School football player during practice in Hattiesburg, Miss., Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Associated Press Emergency workers respond to an accident involving two school buses, a tractor trailer and a pickup truck Thursday on I-44 near Gray Summit, Mo. The school buses, carrying high school students, couldn't avoid a wreck of the trucks that had occurred in front of them.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Coolidge High School football coach Natalie Randolph attends the Washington Redskins NFL football training camp at Redskins Park, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2010, in Ashburn, Va.
