Biography
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Before being appointed United States Secretary of Education in 2009, he served as Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools system. As Secretary of Education, he spearheaded the Race to the Top school reform initiative.
After graduating from Harvard University with a degree in sociology, he headed the Ariel Education Initiative in Chicago and helped found the Ariel Community Academy charter school.
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was a professional basketball player in Australia.
His marriage to Tasmanian citizen Karen Luann Duncan resulted in a daughter and a son. The Duncans placed their children, Ryan and Claire, in public schools in Arlington, Virginia.
He served as Chicago CEO of Public Schools under the mayoral administration of Richard M. Daley.
Body Measurements Table
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Quotes
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.
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.
Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it’s the rule.
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.
Even in a time of fiscal austerity, education is more than just an expense.
