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There was nothing more important I could do than be supportive as a dad.

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Dad, Supportive, Important

"My Most Important Job" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2012.

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States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

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Balance, Students, States

"Campus Protests Should Remind Us All of College’s Value" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

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The cost of college should never discourage anyone from going after a valuable degree.

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College, Degrees, Cost

"Campus Protests Should Remind Us All of College’s Value" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

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No one is mandating merit pay.

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Pay, Merit

"Arne Duncan: Testocracy Tsar. Educational Alchemist. Corporate Lackey". Interview with Jesse Hagopian, progressive.org. January 1, 2016.

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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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Struggle, Cutting, College

"Campus Protests Should Remind Us All of College’s Value" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2010.

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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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Recovery, Years, Reform

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Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

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Teaching, People, Reason

"Teacher Pay Study Asks the Wrong Question, Ignores Facts, Insults Teachers" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

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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.

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Effort, Promise, Energy

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"This is a devastating problem, is, the longer our children are in school, the worse they do. Year after year after year, our children in America are falling further behind. Our 3- and 4-year-olds enter kindergarten OK, and they fall further and further behind. Each year, children in other countries are learning more than children in this country. And so the gap between American student performance in Singapore and Finland and South Korea and Canada and these other countries, the gap widens year after year after year."

- Arne Duncan,

www.pbs.org, added Oct 12, 2017

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Born: November 6, 1964
Occupation: United States Secretary of Education
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