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An Arne Duncan speech I'd like to hear

  • 06-15-2011
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Blog by John Merrow/Huffington Post

This is a speech I hope Arne Duncan will give one day. I don't necessarily expect you to write a FULL SPEECH back in the comments, but I'd love to know the issues you hope the Secretary will touch on in major future addresses. The Speech: With my basketball playing limited recently because of my schedule and a nagging injury, I have been thinking about the sport and its similarities to education. That's what I want to talk about today. Some of you may know that I am comfortable on the court. I played a lot as a kid, was team co-captain at Harvard and then competed in an Australian pro league. I still play regularly and have been on the team that has won three national Three on Three titles in the past few years. I know something about education too -- maybe even more than my critics would have you believe. (more...)

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