an inside account of failure and success from one of the nation's longest-serving secretaries of education Duncan, Arne 1964- creator text bibliography biography Biographies. nyu 2019 First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition. monographic eng

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ix, 243 pages ; 22 cm Drawing on nearly three decades in education--from his mother's after-school program on Chicago's South Side to his tenure as secretary of education in Washington, DC--this volume follows Arne Duncan as he takes on gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they can't help poor kids, unions that refuse to modernize, Tea Partiers who call him an autocrat, affluent white progressive moms who hate yearly tests, and even the NRA, which once labeled Arne the "most extreme anti-gun member of President Obama's Cabinet." Duncan exposes the lies that have caused American kids to fall behind their international peers, from early childhood all the way to college. But he also identifies what really does make a school work, emboldening parents, teachers, voters, and even students to demand more of our public schools. --Adapted from publisher description Lies, lies everywhere If we build it, they will come "The number is zero-point-two" The consortium "We need the carrot" Blue, one red Strange bedfellows Twenty-five pounds of apples and three pounds of cheese "We matter!" How schools work Arne Duncan. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-us--- Duncan, Arne 1964- Education Aims and objectives United States Educación Fines y objetivos Estados Unidos Education and state United States Educación y Estado Estados Unidos Public schools United States Escuelas públicas Estados Unidos Educational change United States Cambio educativo Estados Unidos School administrators United States Biography Administradores escolares Estados Unidos Cabinet officers United States Biography LA 217.2 D911h 2019 379.0973 Duncan, Arne, author. New York : Simon & Schuster, [2018] First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. (DLC) 2018028092 9781501173066 (paperback : alk. paper) 1501173065 (paperback : alk. paper) 2018016716 DLC 180424 20251113171449.0 20467536 eng