A Conversation with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (Ep. 75)

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Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

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4.8 • 998 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2015

⏱️ 35 minutes

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In which I try very hard to convince myself I'm professional enough to do this. Arne Duncan is the U.S. Secretary of Education; in this episode, we talk about selecting a college, paying off student debt, and his goals for education across the nation. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: U.S. Dept. of Education Information on Federal student loans FAFSA Don't pay for student loan debt relief Secretary Duncan's recent article on improving graduation rates Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:34.0	Hey everybody, welcome to the College Info Geek Podcast.
0:40.0	My name is Thomas Frank and this is a show that helps you become a more effective student.
0:44.0	And before we begin today, I just want to say thank you for listening to the show and giving me the opportunity to hopefully make your day a little bit more interesting.
0:52.0	Hope it's off to a good start so far, but hopefully I can make it even better.
0:55.8	Now, before we start right now, if any of you happen to have like magic powers,
0:59.9	maybe you could just reach through your phone or whatever you're listening on and pinch me just so I can make sure that this is real because today on the podcast I have the opportunity to have a conversation with the U.S. Secretary of Education, Arnie Duncan.
1:12.0	And in this show, we talk about his goals for improving the quality
1:15.3	of education across the entire nation. We talk about selecting a college, methods of paying off
1:20.8	student debt, income-based repayment plans, all that kind of stuff.
1:23.9	We also talk about how he actually became the Secretary of Education.
1:27.4	I'm always interested in seeing how people got to where they are, and I know you guys are too,
1:31.5	so I'm going to quit this intro and we're going to get into the episode proper.
1:36.0	Before we do that, if you want to find the show notes to this episode with some of the links to resources he mentions in the interview, you can find all that good stuff over at CIG Podcast.
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