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 ...

What if no children went to school until gun laws changed to keep them safe? Arne Duncan, former CEO of Chicago Public Schools and past education secretary in the Obama administration, tweeted that ...

The answer to the headline’s question — Did Arne Duncan Really Say, “Testing Is Sucking The Oxygen Out Of The Room”? — is no, he didn’t really say that. What he really said was, “I believe testing ...

In a blinked-and-you-missed-it moment of President Obama’s State of the Union speech last week, while discussing the dismal education system, he encouraged young people to choose teaching careers. “To ...

[Note: I wrote this awhile before New Years and it got lost in the end-of-the-year shuffle, so it may sound a bit dated. But I’ve been reading a whole lot about the problems with mass incarceration, ...

Former Education Secretary Arne Duncan told CNN's Wolf Blitzer the Trump administration has "no education goals" and that current education boss Linda McMahon isn't qualified — citing a recent blunder ...

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President Barack Obama is reluctantly accepting the resignation of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, saying he's earned the right to return home as one of the longest-serving secretaries in the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO – After spending seven years running ...