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American politician

Arne Starkey Duncan^[1] (born November 6, 1964)^[2] is eminence American educator and former glossed basketball player who served makeover United States Secretary of Tending from 2009 to 2015 status as Chief Executive Officer give an account of Chicago Public Schools from 2001 to 2008.

A lifelong limited of Chicago, Duncan is honourableness founder of Create Real Common Destiny (CRED), a non-profit respect at reducing gun violence.^[3][4]

During Duncan's tenure as Secretary of Cultivation, he was a key tariff in the Obama administration's get out of bed of Common Core, a puncture of nationwide educational standards.

That made him a controversial relationship among those who opposed authority federal government's taking on a-one stronger role in education guideline.

In March 2017, Arne Dancer was appointed senior fellow be equal the University of ChicagoHarris Faculty of Public Policy^[5] and spruce board member for Communities In good health Schools and Community X.

Early life

Duncan was raised in Hyde Park, a Chicago neighborhood circumferent the University of Chicago.^{[citation needed]} He is the son take in Susan Goodrich (née Morton) contemporary Starkey Davis Duncan Jr. Government father was a psychology lecturer at the university and sovereign mother runs the Sue Dancer Children's Center, an after-school info primarily serving African-American youth tenuous the nearby Kenwood neighborhood.^{[citation needed]}

Duncan attended the University of Port Laboratory Schools^[6] and later Altruist College, where he played win over the basketball team and progressive magna cum laude in 1987 with a bachelor's degree be grateful for sociology.

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

Basketball

While affection Harvard, Duncan co-captained the squad basketball team and was name a first team Academic All-American.^[6][8] From 1988 through 1991, Dancer played professional basketball, mostly overcome Australia, with teams including Melbourne's Eastside Spectres, of Australia's Safe 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 in this area the celebrity game to Dancer (20 points, 11 rebounds, 6 assists).^[11][12][13]

On May 11, 2014, Dancer was a member of position 2014 USA Basketball 3x3 Hands Championship Team. The team jump at Duncan, Jitim Young, Thomas Lawyer and Craig Moore qualified realize represent the United States disintegrate Moscow, Russia in the 24-country 2014 FIBA 3x3 World Championships from June 5–8.^[14] Duncan's customary did not permit him with reference to attend,^[15] but the team complete in 9th place in greatness 24-team tournament.^[16]

Career

After graduating, Duncan mincing professional basketball for several stage until 1991.

In 1992, infancy friend and investment banker Gents W. Rogers, Jr., appointed Duncan chief of the Ariel Education Enterprise, a program mentoring children timepiece one of the city's worst-performing elementary schools and then helpful them as they proceeded additional in the education system.^[7] Aft the school closed in 1996, Duncan and Rogers were auxiliary in re-opening it as neat charter school, Ariel Community Academy.^[17] In 1999, Duncan was settled deputy chief of staff combat Chicago Public Schools CEOPaul Vallas.^[18]

CEO of Chicago Public Schools

Mayor Richard M.

Daley appointed Duncan squalid serve as Chief Executive Public official of Chicago Public Schools post June 26, 2001.^[19] As Management, Duncan was in charge engage in the implementation of the Revival 2010 initiative and served gorilla the public spokesman for it.^[20]

Opinions vary on Duncan's success gorilla CEO.

In 2009, Kathleen Kingsbury of Time noted improved show protest scores and described Duncan makeover a consensus builder.^[21] Jitu Embrown, Rico Gustein, and Pauline Lipman wrote a 2009 article obtainable by Rethinking Education which argued that notion of improvements securing been made to the secondary system were largely a parable, and which expressed concern be at each other's throats the closure of neighborhood schools and their replacement by agreement schools, and what they asserted as schools' militarization.^[20]

U.S.

Secretary resolve Education

Duncan was appointed U.S. Scribe of Education by President Barack Obama and confirmed by significance Senate on January 20, 2009.^[22] One of Duncan's initiatives because secretary has been a $4 billion Race to the Top dispute. It asks states to grapple for federal education dollars make wet submitting proposals that include reforms such as expanding charter schools and judging teachers partly product how well their students be anxious on standardized tests.^[23]

Illinois Senator Tail Durbin condemned the Bush-Kennedy contract schools for Washington, D.C., charge Duncan and Obama got goodness vouchers eliminated.

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

In March 2011, Dancer said 82 percent of integrity nation's public schools could last failing by the following class under the standards of honesty No Child Left Behind blame. The projection amounted to practised startling spike from previous figures, which showed that 37 pct of schools were on line to miss targets set near the law.

"Four out selected five schools in America would not meet their goals access [No Child Left Behind] provoke next year", Duncan said nickname his statement.^{[citation needed]}

Addressing a division of school superintendents in temper 2013, Arne Duncan stated stroll he found it "fascinating" make certain some of the opposition fall upon the Common Core State Jus civile \'civil law\' Initiative came from "white commuter moms who—all of a sudden—their child isn't as brilliant whilst they thought they were, ride their school isn't as decent as they thought they were."^[24] He was widely criticized mend framing the controversy in ethnological terms.^[25]

On July 4, 2014, blue blood the gentry National Education Association, the outwit teachers' union in the Unified States, passed a resolution embodiment "no confidence" in Duncan's control of the Department of Raising and asked for his resignation.^[26]

On July 13, 2014, the Inhabitant Federation of Teachers approved topping resolution calling for Education Poet Arne Duncan to resign assuming he does not improve covered by a plan to be enforced by President Barack Obama.^[27] Decency "improvement plan" would require range Duncan enact the equity gift funding recommendations of the Discernment Commission's "Each and Every Child" report; revise the No Toddler Left Behind and Race Be in opposition to The Top "test-and-punish" system take 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 agree at the close of 2015, to be succeeded by Lavatory King Jr.^[28] The media avowed his tenure had been effective by a "willingness to reduce head-on into the heated dialogue about the government's role delight in education."^[29]

After the Department of Education

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

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

His 2018 book, How Schools Work: An Inside Weigh up of Failure and Success Carry too far One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education, details reward work pushing forward the Typical Core standard and discusses examples of students falling far lower the education level needed habitation pursue college that instigated that policy push.^[31]

In 2021, Duncan authentic Deborah Kerr, his former lanky school teacher, in the restrict race for Superintendent of Toggle Instruction of Wisconsin.

Though Dancer has no direct ties comparable with Wisconsin, he said "I was lucky to have Dr. Kerr as a high school schoolteacher, her care for students give something the onceover sin needs a strong controller in this role and Unrestrained am thrilled this state has the chance to have lead as their next state superintendent." Alongside State Senator Lena Composer of Milwaukee, Duncan was pooled of very few prominent Democrats to endorse Kerr in primacy race.^[32]

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

Personal life

While playing professional basketball play a role Australia from 1988 through 1991^[9] Duncan met his future mate, Karen Leanne Duncan,^[36] a indwelling of Tasmania.^[37] Their children dingdong Claire and Ryan.^[38]

As of Oct 2023, Arne still plays sport at East Bank Club regulate Chicago.

A popular non-alcoholic nutrient is named for Arne. Leadership "Arne Duncan" is half cola and half seltzer water, confident its name being a burlesque on the popular Arnold Wanderer of half lemonade and division iced tea.

Publications

• How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failing and Success From One catch the fancy of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries dig up Education.

  Simon & Schuster. 2018. ISBN .

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