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Teaching 'Peace Corps' attracts recent grads

May. 29, 2009
Teach for America will place a record number of college graduates in the country's poorest public schools this year. A recruiter thinks President Obama's call to service has played a part. Still, the program has its critics. Besides the matter of taking away potential jobs from career teachers,...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler