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U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on college affordability at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 27, 2012.
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Obama Seeks to Contain College Costs

At University of Michigan, Obama addresses college affordability, tuition costs, need to overhaul higher education financial aid system

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Students in Fairfax County, Virginia, use their online textbooks in class.

Online Textbooks Update Student Learning

Washington-area school system turns to e-books

Native American artist David Boxley, from the Tsimshian tribe in Alaska, works on one of the totem poles with his son that they have created, at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, Jan. 2012.

Totem Pole Art Preserves Native American Culture

One Tsimshian tribesman has dedicated his life to keeping his native culture alive

Volunteers help Burmese immigrant parents learn English during lunch hour.

Immigrants Learn English With Their Children

Maryland school, business team up to teach Burmese refugee parents

Southern Methodist University Professor Rick Halperin, who pushed for a human rights degree program, teaches a class.

College Makes Human Rights a Major Issue

Texas' SMU is latest of 5 universities to offer human rights focus

Media mogul and iconic talk show host Oprah Winfrey (C) poses with students of her school's first graduating class at Henley On Klip, outside Johannesburg, January 14, 2012.

Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy Girls Graduate

72 underprivileged girls became first beneficiaries of iconic US talk show host’s $40 million school, south of Johannesburg

Students line up outside the University of Johannesburg to register for this year's studies, January 10, 2012.

Deadly Stampede Highlights Problems With South African Universities

Tragedy results in intense attention on South Africa’s higher education system and its many attendant problems

A student studies on the quad at Amherst College, a liberal arts school in western Massachusetts.

Humanities Fight to Survive in High-Tech World

Liberal arts colleges face declining enrollment

Pupils at the Olympic primary school sit in class on without a teacher on the third day of a teachers' strike organized by the Kenya National Union of Teachers, in Nairobi, Kenya, September 7, 2011.

School Rankings in Kenya Lead Teachers to Seek Protection

Education officials also say the rankings are causing too much pressure in the system, as seen by the recent suicides

Amsterdam researchers have found being physically active benefits academic performance.

Physical Activity Linked to School Achievement

Increased blood flow to brain might play a role

Young men who stayed in school two years longer have higher IQs than their counterparts.

Study: More Education Increases IQ Score

Intelligence quotient is higher in students who stay in school longer

A girl writes on a chalkboard during a math class at Dongba Experimental School, a school for the children of migrant workers, in Beijing, August 25, 2011.

China Reviews Public Education

New education plan stresses importance of modernizing education, making it equally accessible to all people in China

Pupils at the Olympic primary school sit in class on without a teacher on the third day of a teachers' strike organized by the Kenya National Union of Teachers, in Nairobi, Kenya, September 7, 2011.

Kenya Schools Decline in English, Ki’Swahili Language Skills

Also noteworthy is that fourth-best student in country is refugee from South Sudan who had lived in Kakuma Refugee Camp

Demonstrators protest against the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey [TUBITAK] over the exclusion of articles commemorating Charles Darwin's 200th birthday from a scientific journal published by TUBITAK, in Ankara, Turkey, March 2009.

Turkey Blocks Web Pages Touting Darwin's Evolution Theory

Issue exemplifies concerns by academics that ideas of Darwin increasingly are being undermined by the Islamic-rooted government

A medical student in the small town of Salina - population 50,000 - listens to a remote lecture. It's part of a Kansas University program designed to keep doctors in rural areas of the United States.

Rural Medical School Keeps Doctors Local

Kansas University program aims to stop exodus to big cities

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