Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ’86

President-elect Barack Obama has selected Arne Duncan '86 as his Secretary of Education, the New York Times reported [3]. Duncan became superintendent of Chicago's schools in 2001, and has been credited with improving performance in the nation's third-largest district. Read Harvard Magazine's profile [4] here. The Times reports that Duncan, who helped draft Obama's education platform, has been particularly interested in expanding early-childhood education.

For Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan's warm reflections on Duncan's undergraduate basketball and academic career, and his work since, see here [5].