U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan spoke at the US Chamber of Commerce’s Education and Workforce Summit early this month.
Duncan told the crowd that he believes the quality of our education system says just as much about the health of our economy as does the stock market, the size of the GDP and the unemployment rate.
Duncan went on to say that the ability to drive change is done best at the local level where administrators, teachers and principals are making the day to day decisions affecting what goes on in the classroom. He says that it is in the classrooms where the most important teaching and learning occurs.
Duncan also states that the classroom is also the place that the important relationship between teacher and student is developed an nurtured.
Duncan told the group too that only 73% of America’s children graduate from high school and in fact, in many urban areas it is closer to 50% which condemns entire generations to fail. He said that the US has to focus more on graduation rates and not only on test scores.
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