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...Duncan has taken a moderate stance in the debate surrounding No Child Left Behind. This June, two opposing camps of educators released manifestos about which reforms the educational system needed: one pushed forcing schools to raise achievement, while the other advocated new funding for school-based health clinics and social programs, saying that schools could not close the achievement gap alone...
...Duncan was the only superintendent of a major city to sign both petitions. Duncan did a large proportion of his education research during his time at Harvard, where he wrote a sociology thesis entitled, “The values, aspirations, and opportunities of the urban class...
...wasn’t just to work on my thesis—though everyone thinks it was,” Duncan said to The Crimson in 1987. “My mom runs a school in the ghetto and I was working there, teaching the kids, tutoring, coaching, that kind of stuff...
...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...
...Though Duncan was cut from Harvard’s varsity team his freshman year, he pulled all-nighters perfecting his game until he became co-captain of the Harvard varsity team as a senior. He went on to play professional basketball with the Rhode Island Gulls and in Australia with the Eastside Spectres...