Arne Duncan: ‘Everyone Says They Value Education, but Their Actions Don’t Follow’
“Arne Duncan, the former education secretary under President Barack Obama, has always been more candid than others who’ve served in that role. He’s often used his platform to talk about what he sees as the persistent socioeconomic and racial disparities in access to quality schools. His new book, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success From One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education, further cements that reputation. How Schools Work’s first chapter is titled ‘Lies, Lies Everywhere.’ The first sentence: ‘Education runs on lies.’”