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Posted: 4/24/2013 11:03:27 AM EST
FILE - In this March 12, 1984, file photo, President Ronald Reagan gets some instructions on computer operations while visiting the Congress Heights Elementary School in Washington. The White House has taken the school as one of their projects in its operation. U.S. students are falling behind their international rivals. Young people arenít adept at new technology. Americaís economy will suffer if schools donít step up their game. "A Nation at Risk," the report issued 30 years ago by Reaganís Education Department, was meant as a wake-up call for the country. It spelled out where the United States was coming up short in education and what steps could be taken to avert a crisis. But its warnings still reverberate today, with 1 in 4 Americans failing to earn a high school degree on time and the U.S. lagging other countries in the percentage of young people who complete college. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 4/24/2013 3:38:26 AM EST
FILE - In this Aug. 27, 1984, photo, President Ronald Reagan addresses a meeting of teachers and administrators in Washington from outstanding secondary schools across the nation. U.S. students are falling behind their international rivals. Young people aren’t adept at new technology. America’s economy will suffer if schools don’t step up their game. "A Nation at Risk," the report issued 30 years ago by Reagan’s Education Department, was meant as a wake-up call for the country. It spelled out where the United States was coming up short in education and what steps could be taken to avert a crisis. But its warnings still reverberate today, with 1 in 4 Americans failing to earn a high school degree on time and the U.S. lagging other countries in the percentage of young people who complete college. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite)
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Posted: 4/24/2013 3:38:26 AM EST
FILE - In this March 12, 1984, file photo, President Ronald Reagan gets some instructions on computer operations while visiting the Congress Heights Elementary School in Washington. The White House has taken the school as one of their projects in its operation. U.S. students are falling behind their international rivals. Young people aren’t adept at new technology. America’s economy will suffer if schools don’t step up their game. "A Nation at Risk," the report issued 30 years ago by Reagan’s Education Department, was meant as a wake-up call for the country. It spelled out where the United States was coming up short in education and what steps could be taken to avert a crisis. But its warnings still reverberate today, with 1 in 4 Americans failing to earn a high school degree on time and the U.S. lagging other countries in the percentage of young people who complete college. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 10:22:45 PM EST
Student Claudine Nijenhuis, 14, speaks in front of schoolmates Sarah Lachenmayr (2nd L), Samantha Rieche (3rd L), Louisa Damico (2nd R) and Hannah Fielo (R) as they attend a Readington Township Board of Education meeting in Readington Township, New Jersey, April 23, 2013. A New Jersey principal's ban on strapless dresses at a junior high school dance because they would be "distracting" to boys has enraged parents, who called on Tuesday for its reversal on the grounds it violates their daughters' constitutional rights. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
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Posted: 4/23/2013 10:22:45 PM EST
Members of the Readington Township Board of Education listen to a parent during a school board meeting in Readington Township, New Jersey, April 23, 2013. A New Jersey principal's ban on strapless dresses at a junior high school dance because they would be "distracting" to boys has enraged parents, who called on Tuesday for its reversal on the grounds it violates their daughters' constitutional rights. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz
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Posted: 4/23/2013 4:18:25 PM EST
In this April 20, 2013 photo, Miguel Marcano, a private electricity worker, stands behind a fence at his home in Valencia, Venezuela. A dozen voters interviewed across the country, including Marcano, repeated similar explanations for their first opposition vote: anger at food shortages, electrical blackouts, government corruption and inefficiency and a personal dislike for the ruling party presidential candidate Nicolas Maduro, a former foreign minister who talks constantly about late President Hugo Chavez but doesn't share his mentor's charisma, talent for public speaking or long list of projects and proposals for improving Venezuela. Another factor was dissatisfaction over the luxurious lifestyles of high-ranking government officials who drive high-end cars and live in upscale neighborhoods, despite their purported socialist ideas. “Chavez had economic projects, projects to improve production, an education project,” said Marcano. “We never knew much about Maduro. I don't know what he's like as a leader.” (AP Photo/Michael Weissenstein)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 4:13:35 PM EST
President Barack Obama, followed by 2013 National Teacher of the Year Jeff Charbonneau, center, who teaches at Zillah High School in Zillah, Wash., and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, arrive in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 23, 2013, for a ceremony honoring Charbonneau. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 4:13:35 PM EST
President Barack Obama hugs 2013 National Teacher of the Year Jeff Charbonneau, right, who teaches at Zillah High School in Zillah, Wash., as Education Secretary Arne Duncan watches at left, Tuesday, April 23, 2013, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 4:13:35 PM EST
President Barack Obama poses with the 2013 National Teacher Year, Jeff Charbonneau, center, who teaches at Zillah High School in Zillah, Wash., Education Secretary Arne Duncan, left center, and other finalist during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Posted: 4/23/2013 4:13:35 PM EST
President Barack Obama presents the 2013 National Teacher of the Year award to Jeff Charbonneau, who teaches at Zillah High School in Zillah, Wash., during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 23, 2013. Education Secretary Arne Duncan applauds at right. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 9:58:32 PM EST
A woman with a mask stands near the entrance to the Northeast Yucai school where one of victims of the Boston Marathon explosions, Lu Lingzi, studied during her high school education in Shenyang, north eastern China's Liaoning province, Thursday, April 18, 2013. Lu, who was killed in the Boston Marathon blasts, grew up in an intellectual family in a provincial capital with gritty, industrial roots, and graduated from a highly competitive high school that routinely sends students abroad. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Posted: 4/12/2013 9:35:38 AM EST
Spain's Education Minister Jose Ignacio Wert checks his mobile phone during an interview with Reuters at his office in Madrid April 9, 2013. REUTERS/Juan Medina
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Posted: 4/11/2013 8:41:27 PM EST
A trio of protestors drag a street sign to use as a barricade during clashes with police after students held a massive student march demanding free education in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, April. 11, 2013. The marches began during the 2006-2010 Michelle Bachelet administration and have troubled current President Sebastian Pinera even more. Pinera's government is focusing a chunk of the 2013 budget on financing school loans at lower rates. But students say the system still fails them, with poor public schools, expensive private universities, unprepared teachers and unaffordable loans. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Posted: 4/11/2013 8:41:27 PM EST
A man is detained by police during clashes with protestors, after students held a massive student march demanding free education in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, April. 11, 2013. The marches began during the 2006-2010 Michelle Bachelet administration and have troubled current President Sebastian Pinera even more. Pinera's government is focusing a chunk of the 2013 budget on financing school loans at lower rates. But students say the system still fails them, with poor public schools, expensive private universities, unprepared teachers and unaffordable loans. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Posted: 4/11/2013 8:41:27 PM EST
A police aims a paintball gun at protestors during clashes, after students held a massive march demanding free education in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, April. 11, 2013. The marches began during the 2006-2010 Michelle Bachelet administration and have troubled current President Sebastian Pinera even more. Pinera's government is focusing a chunk of the 2013 budget on financing school loans at lower rates. But students say the system still fails them, with poor public schools, expensive private universities, unprepared teachers and unaffordable loans. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Posted: 4/11/2013 8:41:27 PM EST
Two students hold up protest signs that read in Spanish; "The state does not regulate the business of prostitution because it is a 'private business.' If education is a private business, what can we expect?, " during a student march demanding free education, in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, April. 11, 2013. The marches began during the 2006-2010 Michelle Bachelet administration and have troubled President Sebastian Pinera even more. Pinera's government is focusing a chunk of the 2013 budget on financing school loans at lower rates. But students say the system still fails them, with poor public schools, expensive private universities, unprepared teachers and unaffordable loans. The(AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Posted: 4/11/2013 8:41:27 PM EST
A protestor aims a rock at a huddle of shielded riot police after students held a massive student march demanding free education in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, April 11, 2013. The marches began during the 2006-2010 Michelle Bachelet administration and have troubled current President Sebastian Pinera even more. Pinera's government is focusing a chunk of the 2013 budget on financing school loans at lower rates. But students say the system still fails them, with poor public schools, expensive private universities, unprepared teachers and unaffordable loans. (AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)
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Posted: 4/11/2013 12:39:14 PM EST
FILE- In this Thursday, March 20, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Teaming up with other Silicon Valley leaders, Zuckerberg has formally launched a political group aimed at revamping immigration policy, boosting education and encouraging investment in scientific research. Zuckerberg announced the formation of Fwd.us in an op-ed article in The Washington Post late Wednesday, April 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
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Posted: 4/10/2013 4:02:07 PM EST
FILE - In this Sunday, March 13, 2011 file photo, residents evacuated from areas surrounding the Fukushima nuclear facilities damaged in Friday's massive earthquake are checked for radiation exposure in Koriyama city, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. The disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex in Japan two years ago has heightened worry about how well U.S. communities can protect themselves from a major release of radiation. When a tsunami cut off power and nuclear fuel melted, more than 150,000 people fled the Fukushima area, many from well beyond 12 miles, according to Japan's Education Ministry. U.S. officials recommended that Americans in Japan stay 50 miles back. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)
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Posted: 4/9/2013 11:03:41 AM EST
ADDS REFERENCE TO THE CARTON OF MILK Floral tributes and memorabilia outside the house of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who died from a stroke at the age of 87, in London, Monday, April 8, 2013. The milk was left on the doorstep to draw attention that Margaret Thatcher who was the Education Minister in the 1970's when free milk given to schoolchildren was stopped and that she became known as "Margaret Thatcher milk sntacher" (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
