Arne Duncan: “Talent matters tremendously. We have to convince the country that poverty is not destiny, that we have poor children…”

They're trying to have it both ways. So they're bending to the pressure, the political pressure that they're feeling from him.

Let me be really clear: what many states on a voluntary basis have done, including your state, is raise standards.

We don't need just longer years. We need longer days. We need longer weeks.

To be very clear, where for-profits institutions are helping to prepare people for real jobs that have good wages and help move them up the economic ladder, we want to see them grow, we want to see them thrive, we want to see them prosper…