U.S. Education Secretary Duncan Delivers College Completion Message to Civil Rights Group: The country won’t regain its position as the most college-educated nation in the world unless it eliminates disparities in public education at the pre-school through high school levels, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan told a gathering of civil rights activists on Thursday.
“For everything we said we cared about, the fact of the matter remains that there’s tremendous inequality in opportunity for children where it matters the most,” Duncan said to attendees of the 14th annual convention of the National Action Network founded by the Rev. Al Sharpton.
