Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sat down with Michel Martin, host of NPR’s Tell Me More on July 7 to talk about current issues in education. Duncan addressed several issues, how the current economic conditions are unduly affecting education, the cheating scandal in Atlanta Public Schools, No Child Left Behind, the DREAM Act, and the new effort to recruit and train 80,000 African-American male teachers by 2015.
To read a transcript of or listen to the interview, visit http://www.npr.org/2011/07/07/137672099/arne-duncan-how-dream-act-can-reduce-deficit
