Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in Brooklyn

To think that before I went home last night, Arne Duncan was just a few miles from my subway stop.

Mr. Duncan presented a doomsday portrait of education in the United States if the stimulus money were not available. He said up to 600,000 jobs could be lost and average class size could rise to 40 students from 25.

He was visiting Explore Charter School.

Arne Duncan Lives by the Basketball

Teachers College at Columbia University had Arne Duncan as a speaker long before he was nominated to Education Secretary. Here is what he said about Barack Obama and the future of education.