Arne Duncan Quotes

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• I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality, the classroom is the place to start. Great teaching is about so much more than education; it is a daily fight for social justice.

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  Education, Believe, Teaching

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• Wherever you find something extraordinary, you’ll find the fingerprints of a great teacher.

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  Teacher, Great Teacher, Fingerprints

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• Borrowing to pay for college used to be the exception; now it's the rule.

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  College, Pay, Used

  "Take politics out of student loans" by Arne Duncan, www.politico.com. June 10, 2012.

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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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  Mom, Children, School

  "Duncan Apologizes For 'Clumsy' Common Core Remarks". "All Things Considered" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. Eric Westervelt.

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• The factory model of education is the wrong model for the 21st century. Today, our schools must prepare all students for college and careers-and do far more to personalize instruction and employ the smart use of technology.

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  Smart, School, College

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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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  America, Quality, Zips

  FaceBook post by Secretary Arne Duncan from Nov 16, 2012

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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. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'

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  Art, Believe, Carpe Diem

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• Other countries have outeducated us. They have made this a priority. And a big part of what I'm trying to do, frankly, is raise the profile of education and get America to wake up.

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  Country, Priorities, Trying

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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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  Art, College, Odds

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• The only way we get better is to look in the mirror, assess our strengths and weaknesses, and figure out where we need to go. But if we run around saying, we're number one, we're number one, and we're not, that doesn't help us get where we need to go.

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  Running, Get Better, Weakness

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• If the goal is to dramatically improve college completion rates, not college-going rates by itself but college completion, it's not just a college problem. We need a big focus on early childhood education. Our early childhood education system is pretty good in this country. Not enough students have opportunity. And, very discouragingly, they lose their advantage because they go to poor schools after that. So, let's focus on our babies.

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  Country, Baby, School

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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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  Country, Different, Behave

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• Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

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  Teacher, Parent, Support

  "Ask the Teachers" by Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2012.

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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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  Children, Home, Community

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• A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

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  America, Tickets, Economic

  "Lower Student Loan Interest Rates" by Sec. Arne Duncan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

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  Rights, Our Generation, Issues

  CFR meeting, a conversation with Arne Duncan, www.cfr.org. October 19, 2010.

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• When schools truly become centers of the community, where you have extraordinary teachers, the best teachers, the best principals, great nonprofit partners coming in during the non-school hours to support and do enrichment activities, social services, then those students will beat the odds, will beat poverty, will beat violence in the community, will beat sometimes dysfunctional families, and be productive citizens long term. They will go to college.

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  Teacher, School, College

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• At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.

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  Opportunity, College, Risk

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• My vision is that schools need to be community centers. Schools need to be open 12, 13, 14 hours a day six, seven days a week, 12 months out of the year, with a whole host of activities, particularly in disadvantaged communities.

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  School, Community, Vision

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• I'm just absolutely convinced we have to educate our way to a better economy. That's the only way we're going to get there. This is the best long-term investment we can make. And so I think it's my job to be the truth-teller.

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  Thinking, Investment, Economy

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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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  Children, Lying, College

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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.

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  Country, Children, Fall

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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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  Children, Thinking, Price Tag

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• Other countries haves passed us by. They're outworking us. They're outcompeting us. We have got to wake up and we have got to start moving.

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  Country, Moving, Wake Up

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• What you see around the world is that poverty is not destiny. In other countries, much more systemically, student after student, school after school, year after year, educate poor and disadvantaged young people. And, so, anyone who says that you can't overcome these battles is a huge part of the problem.

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  Country, School, Destiny

  "Interview with Education Secretary Arne Duncan". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 7, 2010.

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