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1 Oct 2010, 9:45 am
Today's Schedule All times are Eastern Daylight Time 10:00 AM: The President receives the Presidential Daily Briefing 11:05 AM: The President makes a personnel announcement 11:30 AM: The President meets with Secretary of State Clinton 12:00 PM: The Vice President attends an event for Representative Jerry McNerney 12:15 PM: Briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs 2:00 PM: The President attends Justice Kagan's Investiture Ceremony 2:15 PM: Open for Questions: Education with… [read post]
25 Sep 2010, 7:14 am
Todd Bishop wrote something thoughtful last Sunday about game consoles: that they are computers, that they are in millions of homes, and that it is shortsighted of such an influential a leader as Arne Duncan to dismiss them as potential means for education, even if they are not employed that way today. [read post]
24 Sep 2010, 12:34 pm
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the former longtime chief executive officer of the disastrous Chicago Public School system, will spend hundreds of millions of dollars next year on “environmental education” that will begin in kindergarten. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 2:59 am
Karen Duncan, wife of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and Christie Vilsack, wife of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, are scheduled to attend the debut for the film, which is a joint project of the Healthy School Campaign and Applegate Farms, created by Chicago-based Uji Films.The Health School Campaign has been active in organizing the effort for the passage of a stronger--and better-funded--child nutrition bill. [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 2:59 am
Karen Duncan, wife of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and Christie Vilsack, wife of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, are scheduled to attend the debut for the film, which is a joint project of the Healthy School Campaign and Applegate Farms, created by Chicago-based Uji Films.The Health School Campaign has been active in organizing the effort for the passage of a stronger--and better-funded--child nutrition bill. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 3:44 pm
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced that the FY 2008 national cohort default rate is... [read post]
1 Sep 2010, 7:28 am
ARNE DUNCAN’S INVITATION JUST THE START OF THE PROBLEM: So U.S. [read post]
ANOTHER ARNE DUNCAN EMBARRASSMENT: Education secretary urged his employees to go to Sharpton’s rall…
30 Aug 2010, 7:07 pm
ANOTHER ARNE DUNCAN EMBARRASSMENT: Education secretary urged his employees to go to Sharpton’s rally. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 8:30 am
Thursday, August 26 Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will visit J.S. [read post]
25 Aug 2010, 8:06 pm
The federal Dept of Education under Arne Duncan has more or less continued the general embrace of standards-based education reform begun under President Bush. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 7:31 am
Department of Education’s spokesperson hung up on The Daily Caller Wednesday when seeking clarification regarding the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s planned speech at an Aug. 28 protest march that the Rev. [read post]
23 Jun 2010, 2:27 pm
Today, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan proclaimed the many successes of the legislation, but noticeably left out a key issue — single-sex education — which is on the rise in U.S. [read post]
12 May 2010, 2:59 am
She encouraged the community and the media to get involved in the fight against childhood obesity.Accompanying the First Lady for the announcement were Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes, Health Reform Director Nancy-Ann DeParle, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Department of Housing and Urban Development Deputy Shaun Donovan, and Deputy Secretary of… [read post]
5 May 2010, 8:52 am
Opportunity Scholarship Program went down in flames, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan stood on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 9:30 am
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Senior White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett, Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, joined the Vice President at George Washington University for this announcement. [read post]
23 Mar 2010, 11:10 am
SHOCKER: Arne Duncan manipulated school lists to favor powerful. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 4:05 am
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urging the Department's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to interpret Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to protect Jewish students from anti-Semitic harassment. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 10:00 am
Under the leadership of an outstanding Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, we launched a Race to the Top, through which states compete for funding by committing to reform and raising standards, by rewarding good teaching, by supporting the development of better assessments to measure results, and by emphasizing math and science to help prepare children for college and careers. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 8:42 am
UPDATE: More here: * The measure will fall well short of the Obama administration’s original proposal to transform the student aid programs, giving President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan few of the policy changes and accountability tools they’d hoped for [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 2:59 pm
Image via WikipediaI understand that Arne Duncan, the Secretary of Education is going to announce today that the Office of Civil Rights in his Department is about to step up the heat in diminishing discrimination in the schools. [read post]
