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This summer, Education Secretary Arne Duncan set a national goal to turn around the bottom 1% of America's schools - approximately 5,000 of them - over the next five years. While he has since dialed back the scope of the project (the Education Department now expects the funds to tackle 1,200 or so schools), the objective remains the same. "My goal isn't quantity but quality," Duncan told TIME in July. "That bottom 1% are made up of dropout factories, where 50, 60, 75% of kids are dropping out. Change around the edges isn't going...
...some pretty strong races,” said senior C boat rower Duncan Gilchrist. “We obviously didn’t meet our hopes or our goals...[but it’s] something to build off into the winter training...
Dorm Crew captain Duncan F. Moore ’11 says financial independence was the reason he started working Dorm Crew. Last summer, Duncan used the $3,500 he earned during Spring Cleanup—the four weeks of intensive cleaning after final exams end—to pay for a summer language program in Sweden...
...earlier version of the Oct. 29 article "Dorm Crew Imparts Practical Benefits" incorrectly stated that Duncan F. Moore ’11 earned $3,500 in two weeks of Spring Cleanup. In fact, Moore earned that sums over four weeks of Spring Cleanup...
...Thursday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan ’86 urged universities to change the way they prepare teachers, exclaiming that a “revolutionary change” was necessary to change the “mediocre” state of many teacher-training programs at education schools. Duncan is correct in his judgment of teacher preparation; there are many ways the training process for teachers can be improved to prepare them better for the realities of the classroom...