1. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings also spoke.

2. William J. Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education, edited The Book of Virtues in 1993 to do just that.

3. Arne Duncan, President Obama's secretary of education, consults with Schleicher and uses his work to compel change at the federal and state levels.

4. But the law requires the secretary of education to publish a list of private accrediting agencies recognized as dependable.

5. Carter appointed Shirley Hufstedler as the first Secretary of Education.

6. The support by Arne Duncan, the US Secretary of Education, of the newspaper's publication of this information is highly commendable.

7. He is the self-proclaimed outsider who knows Washington; the former secretary of education who proposes to abolish the department.

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8. On December 21, I named Hazel OLeary, an African-American utility executive from Northern States Power Company in Minnesota, to be secretary of energy, and Dick Riley, to be secretary of education.

9. With the new school year starting, I appeared on NBC's Meet the Press along with Bill Bennett, who had succeeded Terrel Bell as President Reagan's secretary of education.

10. As the smoke cleared from the session, Arkansas began to get a lot of positive national coverage for our education reforms, including praise from Secretary of Education Bell.

11. In April, the National Commission on Excellence in Education, appointed by U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel Bell, issued a stunning report entitled A Nation at Risk.

12. Some members of Congress are demanding Obama drop his appointee for assistant deputy secretary of education, Kevin Jennings, because he is an activist for gay rights.

13. And so is this point from Arne Duncan, the secretary of education: "Currently about one-fourth of ninth graders fail to graduate high school within four years.