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Anne, a child with Down syndrome, draws during a meeting in Paris on April 11, 2001, of the Collective Against Handiphobia, a French advocacy and support group for parents of children born with birth defects. AP PHOTO ERIC FEFERBERG
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First lady Michelle Obama uses a jump- rope during exercise activities at an event highlighting the work of the Physical Fitness Council on Wednesday, June 23, 2010, at the Columbia Heights Education Campus Bell Multicultural High School in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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D.C. schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee said she has some concerns about the D.C. Healthy Schools Act, among them the fact that some schools do not have cafeterias or kitchens. (The Washington Times)
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (left) and Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner listen as the president speaks at the Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Campus (THEARC) theater. (Associated Press)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men gather in Jerusalem on Thursday, June 17, 2010, during a protest against an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school. Jerusalem police said about 100,000 people converged in the city center to support the parents who oppose integration and are to be jailed for two weeks for defying the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school. (AP Photo / Oded Balilty)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish schoolgirls stand on rooftops in Jerusalem on Thursday, June 17, 2010, to watch a mass demonstration against an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school. Jerusalem police said about 100,000 people converged in in the city's center to support the parents who oppose integration and are to be jailed for two weeks for defying the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men escort parents (center) who oppose the integration of a religious girls school as they make their way to police headquarters in Jerusalem, where they are to be arrested on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Israel's Supreme Court ruled Sunday that the school must be integrated and ordered the dozens of parents, who have defied the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school, to be jailed for two weeks, a decision that brought mass demonstrations by the ultra-Orthodox community. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in Jerusalem watch, through the windows of a building under construction, a mass demonstration against an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls school on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Police said about 100,000 people converged in downtown Jerusalem to support the parents who oppose integration and are to be jailed for two weeks for defying the integration efforts by keeping their daughters from school. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Jewish girls look out the window of the Beit Yakov School in the Jewish West Bank settlement of Emanuel, near Nablus, on Thursday, June 17, 2010. Ultra-Orthodox Jews have called mass demonstrations Thursday to protest an Israeli Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of the religious girls school. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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A police car is parked out front of Ballou Senior High School in southeast Washington, DC on the first day of classes on Wednesday, September 1, 2004. ( Angela Kershner / The Washington Times )
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**FILE** In this photo taken May 8, 2009, anti-abortion protestors led by Alan Keyes cross the path of pro-Obama Notre Dame students in South Bend, Ind. (Associated Press)
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**FILE** In this April 21, 2008, file photo, Professor Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge makes remarks at an event marking the 50th anniversary of NASA, at George Washington University in Washington. (Associated Press)
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Illustration: Good Friday.
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Norma McCorvey (bottom center) is confronted by police Sunday after marching on campus at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. At least five anti-abortion activists, including McCorvey, were led away in handcuffs Sunday from campus, where President Barack Obama was also to receive an honorary degree. (Associated Press)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Provost Peter Salovey center, and University President Richard Levin, left, at the Yale University commencement in New Haven, Conn. Monday, May 25, 2009. Clinton is a Yale Law School graduate and met Bill Clinton there in 1970.
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** FILE ** The Susan B. Anthony Middle School is pictured on Thursday, May 14, 2009, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/David Karp)
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High school students have been investigated over "sexting" scandals.
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In this file photo, President Barack Obama waved May 17 as he arrived to deliver the commencement speech during the 2009 graduation ceremony at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Ind. This Friday, he will address graduates of the Naval Academy. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Connecticut Hall, one of the original buildings on Yale University's Old Campus, housed patriot Nathan Hale as an undergraduate. (AP Photo)
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**FILE** In this photo from Jan. 15, 2010, a candlelight vigil is held at South Hadley High School in Massachusetts for freshman Phoebe Prince, 15, who had killed herself the previous day. Nine teens were charged in the "unrelenting" bullying of Prince, originally from Ireland, who killed herself after being raped and enduring months of torment by classmates in person and online. (Associated Press)
