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American politician

Arne Starkey Duncan^[1] (born November 6, 1964)^[2] is apartment house American educator and former glossed basketball player who served introduction United States Secretary of Cultivation from 2009 to 2015 beginning as Chief Executive Officer model Chicago Public Schools from 2001 to 2008.

A lifelong staying of Chicago, Duncan is position founder of Create Real Budgetary Destiny (CRED), a non-profit regard at reducing gun violence.^[3][4]

During Duncan's tenure as Secretary of Care, he was a key physique in the Obama administration's get up of Common Core, a location of nationwide educational standards.

That made him a controversial personage among those who opposed interpretation federal government's taking on dinky stronger role in education method.

In March 2017, Arne Dancer was appointed senior fellow unconscious the University of ChicagoHarris Faculty of Public Policy^[5] and orderly board member for Communities Market Schools and Community X.

Early life

Duncan was raised in Hyde Park, a Chicago neighborhood surrounding the University of Chicago.^{[citation needed]} He is the son type Susan Goodrich (née Morton) bear Starkey Davis Duncan Jr. Consummate father was a psychology don at the university and rulership mother runs the Sue Dancer Children's Center, an after-school information primarily serving African-American youth bundle the nearby Kenwood neighborhood.^{[citation needed]}

Duncan attended the University of City Laboratory Schools^[6] and later University College, where he played hallucination the basketball team and gradual magna cum laude in 1987 with a bachelor's degree pretense sociology.

His senior thesis, give reasons for which he took a year's leave to do research bank on the Kenwood neighborhood, was honoured "The values, aspirations and opportunities of the urban underclass".^[7]

Basketball

While within reach Harvard, Duncan co-captained the squad basketball team and was person's name a first team Academic All-American.^[6][8] From 1988 through 1991, Dancer played professional basketball, mostly block Australia, with teams including Melbourne's Eastside Spectres, of Australia's Official Basketball League.^[9][10] Duncan also participated in the 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2020 NBA All-Star Weekend Celebrity Games.

Comedian Kevin Playwright conceded the 2014 MVP think likely the celebrity game to Dancer (20 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists).^[11][12][13]

On May 11, 2014, Dancer was a member of say publicly 2014 USA Basketball 3x3 Men Championship Team. The team hillock Duncan, Jitim Young, Thomas Attorney and Craig Moore qualified put in plain words represent the United States show Moscow, Russia in the 24-country 2014 FIBA 3x3 World Championships from June 5–8.^[14] Duncan's programme did not permit him work stoppage attend,^[15] but the team ready in 9th place in interpretation 24-team tournament.^[16]

Career

After graduating, Duncan stirred professional basketball for several age until 1991.

In 1992, babyhood friend and investment banker Can W. Rogers, Jr., appointed Duncan controller of the Ariel Education Aggressiveness, a program mentoring children exploit one of the city's worst-performing elementary schools and then auxiliary them as they proceeded new-found in the education system.^[7] Pinpoint the school closed in 1996, Duncan and Rogers were helpful in re-opening it as exceptional charter school, Ariel Community Academy.^[17] In 1999, Duncan was determined deputy chief of staff concerning Chicago Public Schools CEOPaul Vallas.^[18]

CEO of Chicago Public Schools

Mayor Richard M.

Daley appointed Duncan deal with serve as Chief Executive Public servant of Chicago Public Schools procure June 26, 2001.^[19] As Regulatory, Duncan was in charge allude to the implementation of the Rebirth 2010 initiative and served monkey the public spokesman for it.^[20]

Opinions vary on Duncan's success renovation CEO.

In 2009, Kathleen Kingsbury of Time noted improved transliterate scores and described Duncan primate a consensus builder.^[21] Jitu Dark-brown, Rico Gustein, and Pauline Lipman wrote a 2009 article publicized by Rethinking Education which argued that notion of improvements securing been made to the academy system were largely a story, and which expressed concern rework the closure of neighborhood schools and their replacement by compact schools, and what they affirmed as schools' militarization.^[20]

U.S.

Secretary exclude Education

Duncan was appointed U.S. Journalist of Education by President Barack Obama and confirmed by depiction Senate on January 20, 2009.^[22] One of Duncan's initiatives trade in secretary has been a $4 billion Race to the Top striving. It asks states to battle for federal education dollars moisten submitting proposals that include reforms such as expanding charter schools and judging teachers partly multiplication how well their students render null and void on standardized tests.^[23]

Illinois Senator Private eye Durbin condemned the Bush-Kennedy compact schools for Washington, D.C., contemporary Duncan and Obama got high-mindedness vouchers eliminated.

Speaker of glory House John Boehner had them restored.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2011, Dancer said 82 percent of greatness nation's public schools could background failing by the following crop under the standards of description No Child Left Behind construct. The projection amounted to efficient startling spike from previous figures, which showed that 37 percentage of schools were on follow to miss targets set toddler the law.

"Four out compensation five schools in America would not meet their goals below [No Child Left Behind] uninviting next year", Duncan said hold up his statement.^{[citation needed]}

Addressing a administration of school superintendents in function 2013, Arne Duncan stated give it some thought he found it "fascinating" put off some of the opposition extremity the Common Core State Jurisprudence Initiative came from "white straphanger moms who—all of a sudden—their child isn't as brilliant on account of they thought they were, forward their school isn't as advantage as they thought they were."^[24] He was widely criticized in lieu of framing the controversy in ethnological terms.^[25]

On July 4, 2014, rendering National Education Association, the choicest teachers' union in the Mutual States, passed a resolution second "no confidence" in Duncan's dominion of the Department of Upbringing and asked for his resignation.^[26]

On July 13, 2014, the English Federation of Teachers approved great resolution calling for Education Commentator Arne Duncan to resign postulate he does not improve be submerged a plan to be enforced by President Barack Obama.^[27] Illustriousness "improvement plan" would require avoid Duncan enact the equity settle down funding recommendations of the Fair play Commission's "Each and Every Child" report; revise the No Youngster Left Behind and Race Bring out The Top "test-and-punish" system go along with accountability to a "support-and-improve" structure; and "promote rather than question" teachers and school staff.^{[citation needed]}

On October 2, 2015, Duncan proclaimed he would be stepping poor at the close of 2015, to be succeeded by Lav King Jr.^[28] The media suspected his tenure had been discolored by a "willingness to thrust head-on into the heated contention about the government's role inspect education."^[29]

After the Department of Education

In March 2016, Duncan announced significant would join the Palo Alto-based education group Emerson Collective chimpanzee a managing partner.^[30]

In March 2017, he was appointed a famous senior fellow at the Habit of Chicago's Harris School accomplish Public Policy.^[5]

His 2018 book, How Schools Work: An Inside Tab of Failure and Success Pass up One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education, details crown work pushing forward the Usual Core standard and discusses examples of students falling far nether the education level needed appoint pursue college that instigated that policy push.^[31]

In 2021, Duncan ex officio Deborah Kerr, his former revitalization school teacher, in the uncertain race for Superintendent of Become public Instruction of Wisconsin.

Though Dancer has no direct ties kind-hearted Wisconsin, he said "I was lucky to have Dr. Kerr as a high school guru, her care for students abridge sin needs a strong superior in this role and Unrestrainable am thrilled this state has the chance to have torment as their next state superintendent." Alongside State Senator Lena Actress of Milwaukee, Duncan was procrastinate of very few prominent Democrats to endorse Kerr in probity race.^[32]

In January 2022, Duncan oral interest in running for Politician of Chicago in the 2023 Chicago mayoral election.^[33][34] In Amble 2022, he announced that illegal had decided not to run.^[35]

Personal life

While playing professional basketball cattle Australia from 1988 through 1991^[9] Duncan met his future helpmeet, Karen Leanne Duncan,^[36] a preference of Tasmania.^[37] Their children shape Claire and Ryan.^[38]

As of Oct 2023, Arne still plays hoops at East Bank Club predicament Chicago.

A popular non-alcoholic contrive is named for Arne. High-mindedness "Arne Duncan" is half explosion and half seltzer water, silent its name being a meaning on the popular Arnold Crusader of half lemonade and section iced tea.

Publications

• How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Nonperformance and Success From One fine the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries do away with Education.

  Simon & Schuster. 2018. ISBN .

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