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Paul Ryan in high school: Voted by his senior class as....

By Valerie Strauss

When Paul Ryan , now 42, was in high school, he won an honorific from his senior class, but it may not have been one he would have chosen.

Rep. Paul Ryan (Saul Loeb - AFP/Getty Images)Ryan was popular enough atJoseph A. Craig High School in Janesville, Wis. to have been elected prom king and junior class president, but he was also voted by his senior class in 1988 as “Biggest Brown-Noser.” (His cousin, Adam Ryan, won “Most Likely to Succeed” that same year, the Los Angeles Times said.)

Ryan, the seven-term member of the House who was tapped on Saturday by Mitt Romney to be his vice presidential running mate, was a busy young man in school.

Paul Ryan on education policy: vouchers, for-profit colleges, local control

by Valerie Strauss

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)talks a lot about scaling back the reach of the federal government, but back in 2001, he voted in favor of No Child Left Behind, the signature education program of the George W. Bush administration that gave unprecedented power to the U.S. Education Department to tell states and districts what they had to do to get federal funds.
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Lady Gaga and U-Va.’s Helen Dragas

by Valerie Strauss

Helen Dragas, the rector of the University of Virginia’s governing board, probably never thought she would be linked in a headline to Lady Gaga, but she did it to herself with e-mails she sent to the school’s leaders.
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Why Alabama is going slow on charter schools

by Valerie Strauss

This was written by Larry Lee, who led the study “Lessons Learned from Rural Schools,” a look at 10 high-performing, high-poverty rural schools in Alabama. This appeared in the Birmingham News.

By Larry Lee
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