Education Secretary Arne Duncan is leaving his Obama administration in December, according to a letter to staffers obtained by the Associated Press. In the letter, which was confirmed by a White House ...

WASHINGTON – Arne Duncan, who followed President Barack Obama to Washington to serve as his education secretary, announced Friday he will step down following a seven-year tenure marked by a ...

Arne Duncan, the former U.S. Secretary of Education, was living in Chicago in the mid-1990s when he got a call from Tim Grover, the renowned NBA trainer who famously worked with legends like Michael ...

Seniors at New Orleans' John McDonogh High School quizzed U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on everything from high-stakes testing to his job description earlier this morning. But the roundtable ...

Before becoming the U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan served for seven years as the CEO of Chicago Public Schools. Duncan has said that education is "the most pressing issue facing America" and ...

Former U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan criticized Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s controversial ordinance aimed at fining gang members and seizing their property, saying it won’t work to reduce ...

President Obama says schools should stop "teaching to the test," but that's what his own Department of Education supports. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles ...

In this conversation recorded for Washington Post Live on March 27, renowned playwright Anna Deavere Smith and former education secretary and creator of Chicago CRED Arne Duncan discuss their new ...

Arne Duncan, who followed President Barack Obama to Washington to serve as his education secretary, announced Friday he will step down following a seven-year tenure marked by a willingness to plunge ...

Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education for all eight years of the Obama presidency, is well-known for his hoops ability. He played college ball at Harvard, serving as co-captain of the team, before ...

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Striking a combative tone, President Obama’s top schools official on Monday blamed the “ideologues and extremists in our parties” for standing in the way of education reform. Education Secretary Arne ...