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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.
Arne Duncan
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Arne Duncan
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 6
Basketball Player
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United States Secretary Of Education
Chicago
Illinois
Arne Starkey Duncan
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Research shows that children do better in school and are less likely to drop out when fathers are involved. Engaged parents can strengthen communities, mentor and tutor students, and demonstrate through their actions how much they value their children's education.
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To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.
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I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight.
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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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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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The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.
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States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.
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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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Hungry children are distracted children. We want to make sure nothing gets in the way of our children performing well academically, including hunger.
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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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No one is mandating merit pay.
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I think it's my job to tell the truth.
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Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.
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Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.
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Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.
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If children are hungry, they need to be fed. It's hard to learn if your stomach is growling. We need to take that on. If students can't see the blackboard, need eyeglasses, we need to do that. If students need a social worker or counselor to work through the challenges they're facing at home in the community, we need to do that.
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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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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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The jobs of the future, as you know so well, are knowledge-based. You need college-educated folks to do this work. And so the consequences for our country are absolutely devastating if we don't start to behave in very different ways.
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Far too many of our children today, our students, need remedial education. We have been lying to them. They're not really ready for college. That's not higher education's fault. That's our fault K-12.
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