Video from Listening Tour in Montana
Watch video clips from the Secretary Arne Duncan’s listening tour at Lame Deer High School in Lame Deer, Montana. See also the press release and photos from the visit. Click here for an accessible...
View ArticleSecretary Arne Duncan Takes Listening Tour to New Jersey, Visits Charter School
Last week Secretary Duncan took his “Listening and Learning” tour to New Jersey. This was the fifth stop in his multi-state effort to get feedback on federal education policy and input on the Obama...
View ArticleHeard on the Tour: North Star Academy, Newark
North Star Academy students at all-school community circle Everywhere Secretary Duncan has visited on his listening tour — a Montana Indian reservation, a high school in Detroit, a middle school in...
View ArticleTurning Around Low-Performing Schools
“We need everyone who cares about public education to take on the toughest assignment of all: turning around our lowest-performing schools.” That’s what Secretary Duncan said at a national charter...
View ArticleListening and Learning Tour in Indianapolis
Last week, Secretary Duncan’s “Listening and Learning” tour stopped in Indiana to hear from a broad range of stakeholders about education in Indiana and their thoughts education reform. Peter Groff,...
View ArticleSecretary Arne Duncan Takes “Listening and Learning” Tour to Orlando
Secretary Arne Duncan continued his national discussion on education reform yesterday in Orlando, Florida. He toured Lake Nona YMCA Family Center and North Lake Park Community School. He also met with...
View ArticleHeard on the Tour: Secretary Arne Duncan Visits Anchorage
Secretary Arne Duncan visits Anchorage. We had a great day in Anchorage yesterday, our first of three days in Alaska to gather input as part of the “Listening and Learning” education reform tour. Our...
View ArticleBack-to-School Town Hall Meeting
Last night Secretary Arne Duncan hosted a virtual national “listening and learning” event before a live studio audience of 60 parents and educators at the WETA television studio in Arlington, VA. Watch...
View ArticleRural Education Challenges
Secretary Arne Duncan visited Glenrock, Wyoming, to hear about education challenges facing rural communities and ideas for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act in ways that address...
View ArticleSecretary Arne Duncan Visits Delaware, New Jersey
Yesterday Secretary Arne Duncan participated in a statewide leadership forum at the University of Delaware with Gov. Jack Markell and Delaware Secretary of Education Lillian Lowery. He discussed the...
View ArticleListening and Learning tour stops in Des Moines, WA with ED General Counsel...
On October 14, 2009, ED’s General Counsel, Charlie Rose, visited Aviation High School in Des Moines, WA, for a Listening and Learning meeting. A magnet school in the Highline school district,...
View ArticleED General Counsel Charles Rose visits Renton, WA for listen and learn
On October 14, 2009, ED’s General Counsel, Charles P. Rose, visited Renton High School in Renton, WA, for Listening and Learning meetings with teachers and parents. The Renton school district serves a...
View ArticleListening and Learning Tour
This week, Secretary Duncan took his national “Listening and Learning Tour” to New England, with visits to Rhode Island and Connecticut. Since May, the secretary has traveled across the country to...
View ArticleGingrich, Sharpton, Duncan Continue Education Tour in Baltimore
The education tour continues in Baltimore. Al Sharpton and Newt Gingrich joined Secretary Arne Duncan last week along the Chesapeake Bay in Baltimore for the second stop of their education tour. They...
View ArticleListening and Learning: Newport News, VA
Last week Congressman Bobby Scott, Brigadier General Brian Layer, and Newport News Public Schools Superintendent Ashby Kilgore joined Secretary Duncan for stops at the An Achievable Dream network of...
View ArticleHBCU Director John Wilson Visits Jackson State University
We had an uplifting and engaging day at Jackson State University on December 8. It was the first time Dr. John Wilson, Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges...
View ArticleExperts Announced for Early Learning Meetings
Today ED announced the panels of experts who be presenting at the Listening and Learning About Early Learning meetings. Each of the four meetings will focus on one topic. Below are dates, places, and...
View ArticleDuncan Gains Feedback During California Visit
“You aren’t the future leaders, you’re leading today,” Secretary Duncan told a group of students last night at a community forum in Los Angeles that also included parents, teachers and community...
View ArticleSchool Field Trip to California
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sits with Eric Simmons in his first grade classroom at Shoal Creek Elementary in San Diego, Calif., March 23, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy)...
View ArticleBack-to-School Bus Heads to the Great Lakes
During last week’s #AskArne Twitter Town Hall, Sarah, a third grade teacher, asked if it is possible for Arne to “tour and sponsor real town halls with educators.” This week, ED announced that...
View ArticleSecretary Duncan Kicks Off Back-to-School Tour in Pittsburgh
Official Department of Education Photo by Leslie Williams PITTSBURGH- The U.S. Department of Education’s “Education and the Economy” back-to-school bus tour got off to a rousing start with a brassy...
View ArticleEducation Will Open Doors, Duncan Tells Cleveland Students
Official Department of Education Photo by Leslie Williams Nearly 1000 people filed into the East Tech High School auditorium in Cleveland on Wednesday afternoon for the third stop, and the largest...
View ArticleDuncan and Officials Observe Mock Presentation of Innovative Teacher...
An innovative teacher evaluation plan, developed with the participation of the teachers union in Toledo, Ohio, was the focus of the final stop on the first day of the “Education and the Economy” bus...
View ArticleAFT and TFT Share “The Toledo Plan” with Secretary Duncan
Ed. Note: Maryann Woods Murphy is a Spanish teacher and a Washington Teaching Ambassador Fellow on loan from her school in Allendale, NJ. This former New Jersey State Teacher of the Year and 33-year...
View ArticleCommunity College Educators Say American Jobs Act Will Fill Gaps
At a recent roundtable, the faculty of Wake tech Community College believed in their students. “My students have to go out in the community and demonstrate what they can do. I know they’ve learned when...
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