Education

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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..

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President Eisenhower dispatched paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division on Sept. 26, 1957, to defend the desegregation of Little Rock's Central High School against the angry crowd, Arkansas National Guard and governor. (AP Photo)

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Copley News Service photographs C.S. (Jack) Lewis, author of "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe," was elected a fellow here at Magdalen College in 1925. He taught medieval and Renaissance literature here until 1954.