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...Before education became the focus of his career, Duncan??s life centered around basketball. Though Duncan grew up in Hyde Park, he spent much of his childhood on the South Side where he had the chance to play competitive street ball. “Education came later, basketball came first,” says Duncan??s younger brother Owen. “His real great dream was to become a professional basketball player. It was somewhere between devotion and obsession...
...Duncan??s passion for basketball coexisted with a commitment to education. Even at a young age, an indispensable part of Duncan??s life was tutoring and working at the children’s center named for and run by his mother, Sue Duncan...
President-elect Barack Obama selected Chicago Public Schools CEO and Harvard Overseer Arne S. Duncan ’86 last month to fill the post of Secretary of Education, touting Duncan??s hands-on experience with public education at a joint press conference at Chicago’s Dodge Renaissance School, one of the institutions that Duncan targeted for reform since becoming head of the country’s third-largest public school system...
...news conference in December, Duncan cited his mother’s after-school tutoring program on the South Side of Chicago—in Obama and Duncan??s home neighborhood of Hyde Park—as inspiration, saying his experiences there had a large impact on his commitment to improving inner-city education, and his love for basketball...
...Today, the books are still banned at Duncan??s high school...