Arne Duncan always has talked a good game. But if he is going to keep writing books and think pieces about education, he needs to offer something beyond, "I was right all along." ...

Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s announcement on Friday that he plans to step down later this year was greeted by a range of reactions that illustrate how deeply divided the country is over the ...

Former U.S. secretary of Education Arne Duncan has taken on a new job: helping the high numbers of kids dropping out of school, joining gangs and getting killed in Chicago.

Arne Duncan used his last speech as U.S. Education Secretary to draw attention to violence that claims the lives of thousands of children each year, saying that the "greatest frustration" of his ...

President Barack Obama said Friday he pressed Education Secretary Arne Duncan to stay on the job but accepted his decision to return to Chicago “with regret and sorrow.” Duncan, 50, a former ...

This is the essential contradiction of Arne Duncan: He claims to be driven by data, but he prefers a good story. After graduating from Harvard, Duncan played professional basketball in Australia, and ...

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan plans to step down from his Cabinet position by the end of the year, leaving the Obama administration more than a year before the president’s term will end.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced Friday that he would leave the Obama Cabinet in December after nearly seven years of attempting to reshape and bring more accountability to public ...

In July, Arne Duncan, the Obama administration education secretary, visited Parkland, Fla., to pitch parents on his idea for a national school boycott designed to force Congress to take action on ...

Arne Duncan has decided not to run for mayor of Chicago, he announced Tuesday. Duncan, a former U.S. Secretary of Education, CEO of Chicago Public Schools and co-founder of the anti-gun violence ...

ARNE DUNCAN: No, I think investing in our lowest performing schools is some of the hardest and most important work we can do. Margaret, I don't want to leave any kid behind or say they can't make it.