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In this photo taken Aug. 12, 2010, Renaissance High School linebacker Lawrence Thomas is shown during high school football practice in Detroit. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates)
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In this photo taken Sept. 11, 2009, Edwardsville High School running back Rodney Coe breaking through an opening during a game in Edwardsville, Ill. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Tim Vizer)
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Trenise Duvernay teaches a fourth-grade math class at Alice M. Harte Charter School in New Orleans. New Orleans, whose schools were ravaged five years ago by Hurricane Katrina, has relied heavily on charter schools to rebuild its public education system. (Associated Press)
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FILE - In tis Nov. 14, 2009, file photo, Texas A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson passes against Oklahoma during the third quarter of an NCAA college football game in Norman, Okla. Johnson spent last spring student-teaching elementary and high school kids, and football wasn't necessarily the first thing on his mind. Now that he'sback with his teammates, Texas A&M's star quarterback has realized that the skills he used in the classroom have helped improve how he deals with things on the field. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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** FILE ** In 2008, Army Pvt. Edurado Arceo of Pamona, Ca. studies for his General Educational Development certificate in a new Army program dedicated to helping high school dropouts earn their GEDs before they move on to basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain, File)
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D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee (right) talks with third-grader Kmone Feeling, who wants to be a librarian, during a visit to J.O. Wilson Elementary School in Northeast Washington on Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, the first day of the new academic year. D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (second from left) and Principal Sheryl Warley (left) stand at the back. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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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)
