Education

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** FILE ** Rhesus monkeys Canto, 27 (left), which is on a restricted diet, and Owen, 29, which is on an unrestricted diet, are pictured at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., in 2009. (AP Photo/University of Wisconsin-Madison, Jeff Miller)

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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)

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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 ** Monsignor David M. O'Connell, former president of Catholic University of America, speaks last month during the Catholic University of America commencement ceremony. He has been replaced by John Garvey, the former dean of Boston College Law School.

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Middle school students in Hacienda Heights, Calif., learn Chinese language and culture as part of the Confucius Classroom grant program. The middle-class town, about 16 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, has a history of racial tensions between longtime residents and relatively recent Chinese newcomers. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Eric Harris (left) and Dylan Klebold, carrying a TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol, are seen in a photo made from a security camera image in the cafeteria at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo., during their shooting rampage on April 20, 1999. (AP Photo/Jefferson County Sheriff's Department)

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University of North Dakota students and nickname supporters rally on April 9, 2010, at Ralph Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, N.D. The event was held one day after the North Dakota Board of Higher Education directed the university to begin retiring the Fighting Sioux nickname and logo. (Associated Press)

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President Barack Obama points to the crowd before signing the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria Tuesday, March 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Graduates of the seminary program at Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola officiate the prison's 18 inmate churches and do one-on-one ministry and grief counseling. Some graduates act as missionaries in eight satellite prisons in the state. Jan. 6, 2010 (Associated Press FILE)

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A Gallaudet University student looks on as his dogs greet a visitor to his apartment on West Virginia Avenue across the street from the university in the District. (The Washington Times) **FILE**

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**FILE** Attendees observe the anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings on April 16, 2008, that a year earlier took the lives of 33 faculty and students. (The Washington Times)

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Michael Mann, director of Pennsylvania State University's Earth Systems Science Center (Greg Grieco/Special to The Washington Times)

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Shanice Ambrose (right), 10, and Melkaha Farmer, 5, hold their signs as they join former D.C. Council member and Chair of the Council's Education Committee Kevin Chavous as he leads a short rally and an attempt at public disobedience by trying to get himself and five others arrested for blocking the entrance to the U.S. Department of Education in D.C. on Sept. 8, 2009, to protest the elimination of the DC school voucher program. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times) **FILE**

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Liz Weaver of Nashville, Tenn., is a second-year law student at the University of Texas in Austin, where she is trying to decide whether to enroll in a program in London next fall that would saddle her with even more college debt. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Education Secretary Arne Duncan (right) has lunch with students at Eagle School in Martinsburg, W.Va., in 2009. First lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack are expected to announce Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012, that most school meals will have less sodium, more whole grains and more fruits and vegetables. (Associated Press)