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#HispanicED Twitter Town Hall with Arne Duncan

Posted on February 9, 2012 by David Terry

Secretary Duncan answers questions at the Hispanic Twitter Town Hall. Official Department of Education photo by Joshua Hoover.

An engaged audience with a broad range of questions joined Secretary Arne Duncan on Twitter and via video yesterday to discuss education issues facing the Latino community. Duncan was joined by José Rico, executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, and guests from Latinos in Social Media (LATISM). In all, Arne and José answered more than 20 questions. Here is a sample of some of the topics discussed:

WHI - Hispanics@HispanicEd

We cannot have a strong Unites States without a strong Latino community ^Duncan #hispaniced

8 Feb 12

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College Affordability

Elianne Ramos@ergeekgoddess7 Feb 12

@Vicky522 So am I, please make sure to tweet me your Qs for@arneduncan before tomorrow! #latism #HispanicEd

Victoria Cepeda@Vicky522

@ergeekgoddess @arneduncan Q#2 - In the wake of stats confirming college debt #1 among students, how do you propose to alleviate burden?

7 Feb 12

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WHI - Hispanics@HispanicEd

College debt is greater than credit card debt; this worries the President tremendously ^Duncan #hispaniced

8 Feb 12

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WHI - Hispanics@HispanicEd

El Presidente ha logrado reformas importantes en cuanto al Pell Grant y los prestamos estudiantiles ^Rico #hispaniced

8 Feb 12

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Parental Involvement

Dolores Huerta@DoloresHuerta

Parent involvement is key for students success. How can we get more resourses that focus on parent engagement? #HispanicEd

8 Feb 12

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WHI - Hispanics@HispanicEd

Parents need to partner with their child’s teacher as part of the solution to ensure academic success. ^Duncan #hispaniced

8 Feb 12

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Early Learning

https://twitter.com/#!/efrain_nieves/status/167350014836871171

WHI - Hispanics@HispanicEd

The best investment we can make as a society is in high quality early childhood education. ^Duncan #hispaniced

8 Feb 12

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WHI - Hispanics@HispanicEd

Early Learning resources are being improved in Latino communities but participation remains low. ^Rico #hispaniced

8 Feb 12

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To see all of the tweets from the event, check out @HispanicED on Twitter, and to see the archived video of the event, click here.

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