Winning and Losing in America's Schools

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 7, 2018

Arne Duncan, former United States Secretary of Education and the author of How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation's Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (Simon & Schuster, 2018), examines the disparity and decline of America's public school system, and how it can better compete in the 21st Century.

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