Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Arne Duncan (born November 6, 1964) was the United States Secretary of Education from 2009 through early 2016. His tenure as Secretary was marked by controversy. Conservatives and some parents opposed his push for all U.S. states to adopt the Common Core Standards to determine what students had learned, and teachers unions disliked his emphasis on the use of data from student tests to evaluate teachers and schools. Nevertheless, he enjoyed strong support from U.S. President Barack Obama who praised his work at the Department of Education by saying, \"Arne has done more to bring our educational system -- sometimes kicking and screaming -- into the 21st century than anybody else.\"Duncan previously served as superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools from 2001 to 2009."@en }
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- Arne_Duncan abstract "Arne Duncan (born November 6, 1964) was the United States Secretary of Education from 2009 through early 2016. His tenure as Secretary was marked by controversy. Conservatives and some parents opposed his push for all U.S. states to adopt the Common Core Standards to determine what students had learned, and teachers unions disliked his emphasis on the use of data from student tests to evaluate teachers and schools. Nevertheless, he enjoyed strong support from U.S. President Barack Obama who praised his work at the Department of Education by saying, \"Arne has done more to bring our educational system -- sometimes kicking and screaming -- into the 21st century than anybody else.\"Duncan previously served as superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools from 2001 to 2009.".