Education

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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.

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** In this 2010 file photo, Denver public schools' food-service employees participate in a competition at the Bruce Randolph School. (Associated Press)

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Chef Daniel Young chooses the winning fruit salad tray made by Denver public schools food-service personnel during a half day of instruction on how to use fresh foods to make healthier options for students. (Associated Press)

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Employees of Hartford Distributors and their families gather at a high school in Manchester, Conn., on Tuesday, after a driver about to lose his job went on a deadly shooting rampage. (Associated Press)

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Pre-K students read at the Walden Early Childhood Center in Atlanta. States are cutting millions from their pre-kindergarten budgets, undermining years of helping children get ready for school. (Associated Press)

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Maggie Berry, 9, practices at Swim Gym in Key Biscayne. Maggie is one of the students learning how to swim as part of an outreach program. (Associated Press)

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President Obama delivers an education reform speech at the National Urban League's 100th anniversary convention at the Washington Convention Center in Washington on Thursday, July 29, 2010. (UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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President Obama delivers an education reform speech at the National Urban League's 100th anniversary convention at the Washington Convention Center in Washington on Thursday, July 29, 2010. (UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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President Obama greets the crowd after delivering an education reform speech at the National Urban League's 100th anniversary convention at the Washington Convention Center in Washington on Thursday, July 29, 2010. (UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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President Obama gestures while delivering remarks on education at the National Urban League's 100th anniversary convention in Washington on Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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**FILE** Retired Gen. Hamid Gul, former Chief Inter Services Intelligence, addresses students of a Dar-ul-Alumi-Islami, Islamic religious school during a graduation ceremony in Peshawar, Pakistan on Sept. 30, 2001. (Associated Press)

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In this April 29, 2010 publicity image released by MTV, students from Rancocas Valley Regional High School in Mount Holly, N.J., participate in a Challenge Day program during filming of the MTV series "If You Really Knew Me," premiering Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 11:00 p.m. EST on MTV. Challenge Day aims to spread awareness and understanding of diversity to inspire change. (AP Photo/MTV, Brad Barket)