Their solar-powered light had become a serious endeavor that needed to go beyond the classroom.

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Even girls who are able to go to school still face violence -- in the classroom, of all places.

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This includes funding to allow students training part-time to become nurse practitioners to start training full-time. (Applause.) We want to speed up the process where folks go from the classroom into the exam room.

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"The intent is to have something that can go into a generic classroom environment, " he said.

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Now, as a teacher in my eighth year in the classroom, I consider every day that I go to work a privilege.

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Beyond threats of that proportion, many schools now have to deal with the question of how far they should go in monitoring cyberbullying and conflicts between students that move fluidly from the classroom to Facebook or Twitter.

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