Arne Duncan
Arne Duncan
Arne Duncanwas the United States Secretary of Education from 2009 through early 2016. His tenure as Secretary was marked by controversy. Conservatives and some parents opposed his push for all U.S. states to adopt the Common Core Standards to determine what students had learned, and teachers unions disliked his emphasis on the use of data from student tests to evaluate teachers and schools. When Duncan announced his resignation the president of the AFT teachers union said, "there’s no question that...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 November 1964
CityChicago, IL
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Schools and districts and unions are working together on some really innovative things.
Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.
States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.
The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.
I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.
There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.
When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.
At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.
About two-thirds of bachelor's degree holders borrow to go to school, and on average they're graduating with more than $26,000 in debt.
A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.
Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.
Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.
In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.