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Free Education Empowers Rural Girls In Huaping - China

A teacher tutors a student during the evening self-study class at Huaping Senior High School for Girls in Huaping County, Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 23, 2025. Each morning at Huaping High School for Girls in Yunnan Province, the schoolyard rings with a bold pledge, "I was born to be a mountain not a creek, rising to the high peaks with the valleys at my feet." Behind that voice stands Zhang Guimei, the school's founder and principal. In her sixties and struggling with illness, she still devotes more than 18 hours a day to her students. Megaphone in hand, she has become a living symbol of how education can open doors that poverty once closed. Founded in 2008, Huaping High School for Girls is the country's first senior high school to offer free education for girls. The school in mountainous Yunnan Province has created a miracle, with more than 2,000 graduates -- most of whom come from low-income rural families -- admitted to colleges and universities. Many of them later became teacher

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Rachida Dati and Edouard Geffray visit a cinema and a high school in Creteil near Paris FA

A student looks on as French Culture Minister Rachida Dati and French Minister of Education Edouard Geffray visit the Cinemas du Palais and Leon Blum Comprehensive High School in Creteil near Paris, on November 25, 2025. Photo by Firas Abdullah/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Football Steroid Hearing

Washington, D.C. - April 27, 2005 -- National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Paul Tagliabue, left, shakes hands with Bobby Barnes, Head Football Coach, Buckeye Union High School, Buckeye, Arizona, right, as Willie Stewart, Head Football Coach, Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., center, looks on prior to giving testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform in Washington, D.C. on April 27, 2005. Barnes and Stewart testified on drug policies for student athletes during the hearing "Steroid Use in Sports Part II: Examining the National Football League's Policy on Anabolic Steroids and Related Substances"..Photo by Ron Sachs / CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM..(RESTRICTION: NO New York or New Jersey Newspapers or newspapers within a 75 mile radius of New York City)

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First Chinese Opera Ticket Enthusiast Event in Qingdao

13-year-old high school student Wang Xiaoyan is about to perform on stage at the first opera ticket enthusiast event in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China on October 11, 2025.

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First Chinese Opera Ticket Enthusiast Event in Qingdao

13-year-old high school student Wang Xiaoyan received guidance from her teacher before taking the stage at the first opera ticket enthusiast event in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China on October 11, 2025.

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First Chinese Opera Ticket Enthusiast Event in Qingdao

13-year-old high school student Wang Xiaoyan received guidance from her teacher before taking the stage at the first opera ticket enthusiast event in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China on October 11, 2025.

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First Chinese Opera Ticket Enthusiast Event in Qingdao

13-year-old high school student Wang Xiaoyan performed at the first opera ticket enthusiast event in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China on October 11, 2025.

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First Chinese Opera Ticket Enthusiast Event in Qingdao

13-year-old high school student Wang Xiaoyan received guidance from her teacher before taking the stage at the first opera ticket enthusiast event in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China on October 11, 2025.

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First Chinese Opera Ticket Enthusiast Event in Qingdao

13-year-old high school student Wang Xiaoyan is about to perform on stage at the first opera ticket enthusiast event in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China on October 11, 2025.

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