U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan urged universities on Thursday to get more involved in helping to improve underperforming schools, by forming partnerships with local school districts, establishing charter schools, and improving teacher education.
In a keynote address at an education forum presented here by the University of Chicago, Mr. Duncan pointed to that institution’s charter schools as an example and praised the university for not being an “ivory tower in the middle of the city.”
In talking points distributed before his remarks, Mr. Duncan, who was chief executive of the Chicago Public Schools before joining the Obama administration, encouraged other colleges and universities to establish their own charter schools, develop better research methods to track the results of efforts to improve schools’ performance, and create “a new generation of teachers” by providing more hands-on training and better support.
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