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Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

Arne Duncan

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Arne Duncan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 6
Basketball Player
Politician
Sociologist
Teacher
United States Secretary Of Education
Chicago
Illinois
Arne Starkey Duncan
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States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.
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I just think we can't do enough of this [student exchanges]... And when you get young children traveling internationally, I think they come back different people. And you can't put a price tag - you can't put a value on that.
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Teachers say their schools of education did not adequately prepare them for the classroom. They would have welcomed more mentoring and feedback in their early years.
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In America, your zip code or your socioeconomic status should never determine the quality of your education.
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Whether you look at these recent PISA results, which we are mediocre at best, whether you look at a 25 percent dropout rate in this country, whether you look at, in one generation, we're not doing what we need to be doing to keep America great.
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Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.
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There's so much that we're doing wrong today. And studies show we're one of three countries that doesn't invest more in disadvantaged communities.
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It's fascinating to me that some of the pushback is coming from sort of white suburban moms who, all of a sudden, their child isn't as brilliant as they thought they were, their schools aren't quite as good as they thought they were. And that's pretty scary.
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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.
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We need to invest in very different ways. Get the students the support they need, get them the best principals, get them the great teachers, and I promise you those students would do extraordinarily well. I have seen it all my life.
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We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.
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State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.
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Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.
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I think it's my job to tell the truth.
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The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college.
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No one is mandating merit pay.
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My vision is that schools need to be community centers. Schools need to be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day six, seven days a week, 12 months out of the year, with a whole host of activities, particularly in disadvantaged communities.
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We need to lengthen the school day. We need to lengthen the school year. Our calendar is based upon the agrarian economy. Children in India and China are going to school 25, 30, 35 more days a year. They're just working harder than us. So, we need more time, particularly for disadvantaged children, who aren't getting those supports at home.
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City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.
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The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.
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