Arne Duncan was the United States Secretary of Education from 2009 through December 2015. While his tenure as Secretary was marked by some controversy (conservatives and some parents opposed his push for all U.S states to adopt the Common Core Standards to determine what students had learned, and teachers unions disliked his emphasis on the use of data from student tests to evaluate teachers and schools), he nevertheless enjoyed strong support from U.S.
President Barack Obama who praised his work at the Department of Education by saying, “Arne has done more to bring our educational system — sometimes kicking and screaming — into the 21st century than anybody else”.
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