<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - education-secretary</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/education-secretary</link><description>Newsvine - education-secretary</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Tue, 9 Oct 2012 14:36:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 19:03:05 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Clarification: Education Secretary-Textbooks story</title>
<description><![CDATA[In a story Oct. 2, The Associated Press reported that South Korea had set a goal to make all of its textbooks digital by 2015. In June, South Korea modified the plan to exclude some grades and to allow paper textbooks to be used alongside digital books while paper books are phased out.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/02/14185150-clarification-education-secretary-textbooks-story</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/10/02/14185150-clarification-education-secretary-textbooks-story</guid><category>us</category><category>politics</category><category>education</category><category>south-korea</category><category>associated-press</category><category>secretary</category><category>textbooks</category><category>education-secretary</category><category>arne-duncan</category><pubDate>Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:41:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ed secretary is neutral in Chicago teachers strike</title>
<description><![CDATA[Education Secretary Arne Duncan isn't taking sides in the Chicago teachers' strike that is keeping more than 350,000 students out of the classroom.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh Lederman]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Josh Lederman]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/11/13809945-ed-secretary-is-neutral-in-chicago-teachers-strike</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2012/09/11/13809945-ed-secretary-is-neutral-in-chicago-teachers-strike</guid><category>us</category><category>chicago</category><category>schools</category><category>politics</category><category>education-secretary</category><category>arne-duncan</category><pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 21:08:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=81b4d13a-dea6-4128-b84b-3cf746a7cf83.jpg&amp;width=400" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="243" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://m.static.newsvine.com/servista/imagesizer?file=81b4d13a-dea6-4128-b84b-3cf746a7cf83.jpg&amp;width=120" width="120" height="73" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Chicago public school teachers take a group picture as they walk a picket line outside Shoop Elementary School in Chicago, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, on the second day of a strike in the nation's third-largest school district as negotiations by the two sides failed to reach an agreement Monday in a bitter contract dispute over evaluations and job security. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Duncan accepts Chicago union president's apology</title>
<description><![CDATA[Education Secretary Arne Duncan has accepted an apology from the president of the Chicago Teachers Union for a joke she made about him having a lisp.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/15/8816776-duncan-accepts-chicago-union-presidents-apology</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/15/8816776-duncan-accepts-chicago-union-presidents-apology</guid><category>us</category><category>us-news</category><category>secretary</category><category>joke</category><category>education-secretary</category><category>arne-duncan</category><category>education-arne-duncan</category><category>chicago-teachers-union</category><pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:54:34 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/47ff1434-e25b-4571-bc9e-1521a4ac11fb.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="368" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/47ff1434-e25b-4571-bc9e-1521a4ac11fb.jpg" width="120" height="167" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2011 file photo, Education Secretary Arne Duncan is interviewed by The Associated Press in Washington. A spokeman for the Department of Education said Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2011, that Duncan has accepted an apology from Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, for a joke she made about him having a lisp. Lewis said at a union event in Seattle last month that she could tell Duncan &quot;went to a private school, because if he had gone to a public school, he would have had that lisp fixed.&quot; Her comments were caught on video. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Duncan praises push to help immigrant students</title>
<description><![CDATA[Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday he's encouraged that some states are allowing the children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at public colleges.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Hefling]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Kimberly Hefling]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/07/8684514-duncan-praises-push-to-help-immigrant-students</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/11/07/8684514-duncan-praises-push-to-help-immigrant-students</guid><category>us</category><category>politics</category><category>illegal-immigrants</category><category>education-secretary</category><category>arne-duncan</category><pubDate>Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:19:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/2ba37d7f-8f03-41ab-921a-09bd56b39442.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="369" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/2ba37d7f-8f03-41ab-921a-09bd56b39442.jpg" width="120" height="167" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Education Secretary Arne Duncan is interviewed by The Associated Press, Monday, Nov.  7, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/6ec89290-571b-41ce-90b5-66eddf0d7176.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="315" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/6ec89290-571b-41ce-90b5-66eddf0d7176.jpg" width="120" height="195" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Education Secretary Arne Duncan gestures during his interview with The Associated Press, Monday, Nov., 7, 2011, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Education Secretary Duncan tours Rust Belt</title>
<description><![CDATA[Education Secretary Arne Duncan set out Wednesday on a three-day bus tour across the Rust Belt manufacturing region. His message is that education can help revitalize the economy in distressed areas that had been dominated by industries such as coal, steel and the production of cars.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kimberly Hefling]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Kimberly Hefling]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/07/7643171-education-secretary-duncan-tours-rust-belt</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2011/09/07/7643171-education-secretary-duncan-tours-rust-belt</guid><category>us</category><category>us-news</category><category>rust-belt</category><category>education-secretary</category><category>bus-tour</category><category>arne-duncan</category><pubDate>Wed, 7 Sep 2011 07:03:54 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>US education chief upbeat despite election blow</title>
<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama's education secretary is hopeful that this week's Republican election victories won't derail his ambitious school reforms, which he argues are crucial to keeping up in an ever-smarter global economy.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Angela Charlton]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Angela Charlton]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/04/5409429-us-education-chief-upbeat-despite-election-blow</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/11/04/5409429-us-education-chief-upbeat-despite-election-blow</guid><category>eu</category><category>us</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>world-news</category><category>education-secretary</category><pubDate>Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:02:58 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/8ec4cf32-c563-4780-8603-8758403e0858.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/8ec4cf32-c563-4780-8603-8758403e0858.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;U.S. Education Secretary, Arne Duncan talks to the media during a visit with British Education Secretary, Michael Grove to Mossbourne Community Academy in Hackney, east London, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2010. Arne Duncan is on a visit to Europe to meet with education officials and discuss the Obama Administration's education reform agenda. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, Pool)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>US education chief appeals for great new teachers</title>
<description><![CDATA[U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan appealed Friday for a new generation of extraordinary teachers, calling education the civil rights cause of our time.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Szkotak]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Steve Szkotak]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/09/3365910-us-education-chief-appeals-for-great-new-teachers</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/10/09/3365910-us-education-chief-appeals-for-great-new-teachers</guid><category>us</category><category>teachers</category><category>us-news</category><category>secretary</category><category>education-secretary</category><category>arne-duncan</category><pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 15:53:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Education chief: Schools crucial to recovery</title>
<description><![CDATA[Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the economy won't improve without the billions of dollars for schools in President Barack Obama's recovery plan.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Libby Quaid]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Libby Quaid]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/29/2369431-education-chief-schools-crucial-to-recovery</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/29/2369431-education-chief-schools-crucial-to-recovery</guid><category>politics</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>education-secretary</category><category>arne-duncan</category><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:35:41 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/87685d57-b935-4656-bd61-212a43879e41.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="311" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/87685d57-b935-4656-bd61-212a43879e41.jpg" width="120" height="94" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Jan. 13, 2009, file photo Education Secretary nominee Arne Duncan testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on his confirmation. In an interview with the Associated Press Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, Duncan said, &quot;If we want to stimulate the economy, we need a better-educated workforce,&quot; and said that the economy won't improve without the billions of dollars for schools in President Barack Obama's recovery plan. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/95a6864b-6a35-4e8d-97ea-4ee8cc437211.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="374" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/95a6864b-6a35-4e8d-97ea-4ee8cc437211.jpg" width="120" height="113" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this Jan. 13, 2009, file photo Education Secretary nominee Arne Duncan appears on Capitol Hill accompanied by his wife Karen and their children, Claire, left, and Ryan, right, at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing for his confirmation in Washington. In an interview with the Associated Press Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, Duncan said, &quot;If we want to stimulate the economy, we need a better-educated workforce,&quot; and said that the economy won't improve without the billions of dollars for schools in President Barack Obama's recovery plan. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Senate hearing Tuesday spotlights school reform</title>
<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama's choice for education secretary, Arne Duncan, said Tuesday he wants to improve the No Child Left Behind law and lure more people into teaching.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Libby Quaid]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Libby Quaid]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/12/2303986-senate-hearing-tuesday-spotlights-school-reform</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/12/2303986-senate-hearing-tuesday-spotlights-school-reform</guid><category>politics</category><category>barack-obama</category><category>no-child-left-behind</category><category>education-secretary</category><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:14:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/ea851d03-63f6-49e3-983c-663fa7aa8b10.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="364" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/ea851d03-63f6-49e3-983c-663fa7aa8b10.jpg" width="120" height="169" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;In this June 18, 2002 file photo, Arne Duncan, head of the Chicago Public Schools system, answers a question during an interview in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Bennett, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Spellings Finishes 2nd on 'Jeopardy'</title>
<description><![CDATA[Education Secretary Margaret Spellings says she studied hard to prepare for Tuesday night's airing of "Celebrity Jeopardy!"]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Zuckerbrod]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Nancy Zuckerbrod]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/11/21/452013-spellings-finishes-2nd-on-jeopardy</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/11/21/452013-spellings-finishes-2nd-on-jeopardy</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>politics</category><category>secretary</category><category>margaret-spellings</category><category>education-secretary</category><category>jeopardy</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:21:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/68e0fdbb-d06d-414d-9d34-f3603ab074a0.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="288" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/68e0fdbb-d06d-414d-9d34-f3603ab074a0.jpg" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;This photo provided by Jeopardy Productions Inc., taken Oct. 8, 2006, shows Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, right, posing with Jeopardy host Alex Trebek, at Radio City Music hall in New York. (AP Photo/Jeopardy Productions Inc.)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item></channel></rss>