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Less than two hours earlier, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne S. Duncan ’86 had finished speaking about his Race to the Top initiative, which seeks to address disparities in access to quality education across the nation.
Duncan, who grew up in the diverse Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park where his mother ran an after-school tutoring program for under-privileged children, said he had witnessed gross inequities between his education at the University of Chicago Lab School and the education of his neighbors in other schools...
This experience, Duncan said, spurred his interest in education reform—which has emphasized “rejecting the status quo” and which, he acknowledged, has sometimes led to criticism.
Duncan pointed to a national dropout rate of 27 percent as an indication that sweeping reforms are needed in K-12 education. He also emphasized early childhood education, college prepatory coursework, and the use of transparent data collection to track student progress.
In each of his 18 years teaching at East Oakland public schools, at least one of Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade’s students had died, he revealed during a conference held at the Graduate School of Education on Friday.