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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Democrats are losing the battle for control over the U.S. education system after decades of mismanagement. But they don’t intend to go down without a fight. Arne Duncan, who served as secretary of the ...

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 ...

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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[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, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...