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That may sound like a lot of money--Duncan plans to give his share to charity--but it's chump change compared with the kind of cash he gets to play with at work. The economic-stimulus bill passed by Congress in February included $100 billion in new education spending. Of that total, Duncan has $5 billion in discretionary funding. That money alone makes him the most powerful Education Secretary ever. "I had very little--in the single-digit millions," says Margaret Spellings, Duncan's predecessor. "That's millions, with...
...University of Chicago Lab School, a rigorous K-12 program that led him to Harvard. There he graduated magna cum laude while maintaining his obsession with basketball, co-captaining the team his senior year. After college and a failed tryout with the Boston Celtics, Duncan flew to Australia to play in that nation's professional basketball league. He stayed for four years, playing ball, working with foster kids and eventually meeting his wife Karen...
...teachers in awful schools, Duncan says. "It's obvious the system's broken. Let's admit it's broken, let's admit it's dysfunctional, and let's do something dramatically different, and let's do it now. But don't just tinker around the edges. Don't just play with it. Let's fix the thing...
...think mentally it will prepare me better for tough games,” Evans said. “I know I’ll have to go out and play my hardest because, after an injury like this, you can’t complain about anything else...
...Palo Alto native chose to leave her hometown for Cambridge, much to the chagrin of her friends back home, who had hoped to continue to watch her play in California. Evans, however, knew Harvard was the right choice after her official visit in October of last year, when she met the coaches and other players. Evans, a prospective biology or bioengineering concentrator, felt Harvard would give her a better chance to focus on academics...