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In late 2008 after being nominated as Secretary of Education, Duncan began receiving litigation information<ref name="Letter to Arne Duncan and Margaret Spellings]">[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/20090115_SpellingsDuncanLetter.pdf Letter to Arne Duncan and Margaret Spellings]</ref> regarding the |
In late 2008 after being nominated as Secretary of Education, Duncan began receiving litigation information<ref name="Letter to Arne Duncan and Margaret Spellings]">[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/20090115_SpellingsDuncanLetter.pdf Letter to Arne Duncan and Margaret Spellings]</ref> regarding the ahahahahhacademic fraud case with the [[Association of Theological Schools]], and [[Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities]] concerning their failure to enforce 34 CFR 602, The Secretary's Recognition of Accrediting Agencies upon [[Western Seminary]]. Spellings failed to timely correct the accreditation agencies during her tenure, leaving Duncan to deal with active lawsuits concerning the fraud upon taking office. |
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Revision as of 19:55, 28 January 2009
Arne Duncan | |
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| 9th United States Secretary of Education | |
| Assumed office January 21, 2009 | |
| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | Margaret Spellings |
| C.E.O. of the Chicago Public Schools | |
| In office June 26, 2001 – January 21, 2009 | |
| Appointed by | Richard Daley |
| Preceded by | Paul Vallas |
| Succeeded by | Ron Huberman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 6, 1964 Chicago, Illinois |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (B.A.) |
Arne Duncan (born November 6, 1964) is an American education administrator and currently United States Secretary of Education since January 21, 2009. Duncan had previously served as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools.
Early Life
Duncan was raised in Hyde Park, Chicago, where his father Starkey Duncan was a psychology professor at the University of Chicago, and mother Susan Morton runs The Sue Duncan Children's Center, an after school program serving African American youth on Chicago's South Side. Duncan spent a great deal of his free time at his mother's center tutoring children and sharpening his basketball skills with the neighborhood children. Some of his childhood friends were John W. Rogers, Jr., CEO of Ariel Capital Management (now Ariel Investments) and founder of the Ariel Community Academy, Illinois Senator Kwame Raoul, actor Michael Clarke Duncan, singer R. Kelly and martial artist Michelle Gordon. Duncan's spoken accent at this time led at least one college basketball coach to assume that he was of African-American descent.[1]
Education
Duncan attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, where he aspired to a future career coaching basketball or playing the sport professionally.[2] He then graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in sociology in 1987. His senior thesis, for which he took a year's leave to do research in Kenwood, in inner-city Chicago, was entitled The values, aspirations and opportunities of the urban underclass. Though unpublished, it was later cited by other authors. [3] [4] [5]
Harvard basketball
At Harvard, Duncan was relegated to the junior varsity basketball squad his first year by coach Frank McLaughlin, but later became co-captain of the varsity team and named a first team Academic All-American. [6] [7] As a freshman, Duncan narrowly lost to a Duke team that included future NBA player and Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins, as well as Tommy Amaker, who was himself later to become Harvard's basketball coach.[8][9] As a senior and co-captain, Duncan scored 20 points against then nationally-ranked Duke team, while Duke's Danny Ferry, a future NBA star (and brother of Duncan's former Harvard teammate Bob Ferry) was held to a mere 15 points.[10]
Professional basketball career
From 1987 to 1991, Duncan played professional basketball in Australia with the Eastside Spectres of the National Basketball League,[11] and while there, worked with children who were wards of the state. He also played with the Rhode Island Gulls and tried out for the New Jersey Jammers.[12] While in Tasmania he met his future wife, Karen.
Education career
Duncan has extensive experience in educational policy and management, but has not been a teacher. In 1992, Duncan became director of the Ariel Education Initiative, a program to enhance educational opportunities for children on Chicago's South Side that was started by John W. Rogers, Jr., and in 1998 he joined the Chicago Public Schools.[13] He became Deputy Chief of Staff for former Schools CEO Paul Vallas in 1999.[14] In 1996, along with Rogers, he was part of a network that funded and supported Ariel Community Academy.[15]
Mayor Richard M. Daley appointed Duncan to serve as CEO of Chicago Public Schools on June 26, 2001.[16]
He was a fellow in the Leadership Greater Chicago's class of 1995, and a member of the Aspen Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship Program, Class of 2002. In May 2003, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Lake Forest College.
Duncan currently serves as the Secretary of Education in the Obama Administration.[17]
Litigation
In late 2008 after being nominated as Secretary of Education, Duncan began receiving litigation information[18] regarding the ahahahahhacademic fraud case with the Association of Theological Schools, and Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities concerning their failure to enforce 34 CFR 602, The Secretary's Recognition of Accrediting Agencies upon Western Seminary. Spellings failed to timely correct the accreditation agencies during her tenure, leaving Duncan to deal with active lawsuits concerning the fraud upon taking office.
References
- ^ Steve Bzomowski, Hoops Tips
- ^ Blue Chip Stock
- ^ Loic J. D. Wacquant, "Inside 'The Zone': The Social Art of the Hustler in the American Ghetto."
- ^ Mario Luis Small and Monica McDermott, "The Presence of Organizational Resources in Poor Urban Neighborhoods: An Analysis of Average and Contextual Effects"
- ^ Tracking An Unusual Inner-City Talent
- ^ Blue Chip Stock
- ^ Sweet, Lynn (December 15, 2008). "Arne Duncan to be named Obama Education Secretary". Chicago Sun-Times.
- ^ Blue Devils Slip Past Cagers, 89-86
- ^ Mostly W's for Coach K
- ^ Duke Be-Devils Cagers, 98-86
- ^ "Players". NBL Stats. The NBL Stats Team. 2006.
- ^ Soaring to a Professional Career
- ^ "Arne Duncan". Chicago Public Schools. 2003.
- ^ "Deputy steps up to schools CEO". Crain's Chicago Business. July 2, 2001.
- ^ Young, Lauren (March 2002). "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood". SmartMoney. Retrieved 2008-12-17.
- ^ "Arne Duncan". Chicago Public Schools. 2008.
- ^ change.gov (16 December 2008). "President-elect Obama nominates Arne Duncan as Secretary of Education" (Press release). Newsroom. Office of the President-elect. Retrieved December 17, 2008.
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