PROGRAM

On May 16, 2011, Roosevelt House was honored to host a conversation with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to discuss education policy and the U.S. Education Department’s agenda for the coming years.

About the Speaker:

Arne Duncan became the U.S. Secretary of Education in 2009. Teaching runs in Duncan’s family: his mother, Sue Duncan, runs an independent early-learning center for children on Chicago’s South Side, and his father was a professor at the University of Chicago. Arne Duncan went to Harvard University, where he was co-captain of the basketball team before graduating with a sociology degree in 1987.

He played pro basketball in Australia from 1987-91. He then returned to Chicago and in 1992, along with his sister, helped create Ariel Community Academy, a new charter public school which he ran for six years.

He became director of the magnet school program for Chicago Public Schools in 1998 and in 2001 was named chief executive officer of Chicago’s public schools a job he held until his confirmation as US Secretary of Education.

 


A Conversation with Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education | Posted on May 16th, 2011 | Public Programs