Education

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Madrasa students reading in the library of Jamia Dar-ul-Uloom in Lahore, Pakistan. (Jason Motlagh/The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Elementary school students read books in a classroom at Mount Savage School in Maryland. (Associated Press)

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Allan J. Lichtman, professor of history, American University

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Sohel Islar (left) and Malak Khan work behind the counter at a Domino's Pizza store in Arlington in 2008. (The Washington Times) ** FILE **

College Republicans from the University of Missouri at Columbia, Mo. show their support for John McCain outside the site of a rally for Sen. Joe Biden, D-De, Thursday. The parking lot in the background refused parking access to attendees. (Mary F. Calvert / The Washington Times)

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American University students face a changing but not hopeless job climate. COURTESY OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITY.

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AmeriCorps member Samantha Royes (right) helps Fayvin Bowens, 11, a student at Noyes Elementary School, with her homework at the Youth Gateway Program, an initiative of the Community Preservation and Development Corps., in Washington D.C., Friday, Oct. 10, 2008. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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** FILE ** Jerry Falwell Jr., chancellor of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., says college students there are more likely to vote in the presidential election if they register in Virginia. (Associated Press)

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A cache (not pictured) of more than 170 unexploded practice bombs dating back to World War II has been found under a playground in the English town of Wooler in the U.K. In this photo, bombs and debris found by the Army Corps of Engineers at Odyssey Middle School are piled on the track at the school in Orlando, Fla. The school sits atop a World War II bombing range. (Associated Press)

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Physics teacher Michel Olalo clears the chalkboard at a high school in Foley, Ala., on June 16. Miss Olalo, of Manila, was one of 12 Filipinos brought in to teach along the Gulf Coast shores, owing to a shortage of qualified U.S. teachers. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A woman in a burqa begs for money with her baby tucked in her arms in central Kabul, Afghanistan. (The Washington Times)

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JOHN TULLY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES School districts have to run their buses, and they combing their budgets to find the money to pay for high fuel prices this year. Cuts are likely in other areas to make up the difference.

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As the Soviet satellite Sputnik orbited the Earth in 1957, it launched a U.S. call for science education. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

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A hazardous materials worker suits up before entering the Hart Senate Office Building at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC Thursday, November 1, 2001.

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Students passing through metal detectors is a common ritual in inner-city schools. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Associated Press The American Medical Association has advised college campuses since 2006 to warn women about the hazards of spring break after surveying 644 young women to find that three-fourths of them "use drinking as an excuse for outrageous behavior."

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Astrid Riecken/The Washington Times An armed guard guides visitors to the school Tuesday while monitoring the Islamic Saudi Academy grounds.

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Tinesheia Howard uses the library at Lincoln College in Lincoln, Ill. She spent 18 months in a homeless shelter while attending Chicago's North Lawndale College Preparatory High School. She supports a proposal to create residential programs for homeless students in Chicago. (Associated Press)

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People enter the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on the campus of Catholic University in Washington. (File, The Washington Times)

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Jerome Addison, a senior at Suitland High School and one of Ms. Lofland's students, won an entrepreneurship contest with a business plan for his cake decorating. Addison also bakes and designs cakes, some of which consist of several multitiered wedding cakes..