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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: 60
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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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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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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To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.
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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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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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Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.
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Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.
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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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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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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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City Year is taking on some of the toughest work in education.
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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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Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.
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I think it's my job to tell the truth.
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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 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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The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.
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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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No one is mandating merit pay.
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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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