President Obama’s Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
As Secretary of Education under President Obama, Arne Duncan helped to create and secure congressional support for President Obama’s investments in education, including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s $100 billion to fund 325,000 teaching jobs, increases in Pell grants, reform efforts such as Race to the Top and Investing in Innovation, and interventions in low-performing schools. Additionally, he helped secure an additional $10 billion to avoid teacher layoffs; the elimination of student loan subsidies to banks; and a $500 million national competition for early learning programs.
He will provide an inside account of how schools work, their successes and failures.
Duncan graduated magna cum laude from Harvard, majoring in sociology. He was co-captain of Harvard’s basketball team and was named a first team Academic All-American.