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Friday, September 9, 2011

This Week In Education: EdSec: Duncan's Questionable Comments On Chicago

This Week In Education: EdSec: Duncan's Questionable Comments On Chicago:

EdSec: Duncan's Questionable Comments On Chicago

Finishing up his Great Lakes bus tour in Chicago today, Arne Duncan has weighed into the issue of whether Chicago's school day should be longer with typical abandon and pleasant obliviousness: image from a4.l3-images.myspacecdn.com

Duncan: CPS deserves ‘a badge of shame’ for short school day Sun Times: U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Thursday that Chicago Public Schools deserve the “badge of shame’’ for having such a short school day, and he wished he could have lengthened it while he was Schools CEO here.

Duncan backs longer Chicago school day Tribune: Count U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan among the biggest cheerleaders for lengthening the