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Arne Duncan on the Jon Stewart Daily Show – Reading through the Rhetoric – Why won’t he hear us? « Continuing Change

Arne Duncan on the Jon Stewart Daily Show – Reading through the Rhetoric – Why won’t he hear us? « Continuing Change:

Arne Duncan on the Jon Stewart Daily Show – Reading through the Rhetoric – Why won’t he hear us?

Arne Duncan on the Jon Stewart Daily Show – Reading through the Rhetoric – Why won’t he hear us?

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He says:

“I think our biggest challenge, Jon, is that we have become too complacent. We’re 16th in the world today in college graduates. A generation ago we were first. It isn’t that we dropped. We’ve flatlined and 15 other countries have passed us by. We have to educate our way to a better economy. There are two million jobs out there today in our country today that we can’t fill because we don’t have an educated workforce to fill those jobs. And, so we have to be willing to challenge