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Education secretary: Low grad rates call for ban
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says college basketball teams that don't graduate at least 40 percent of their players should be banned from postseason play. |
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan credits basketball with life assist
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Arne Duncan loves basketball. And why wouldn't he? It helped him get to Harvard. It's how he found his wife. It even played a role in his becoming Secretary of Education. "So much of what I've learned in life, I learned on a basketball court," he says. "It helped shape me. And it's been formative. It's been a love for a long, long time. It's something I still love." |
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Education Secretary Duncan: Ban NCAA teams with low grad rates
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If U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had his way, a dozen of the teams in the men's NCAA basketball tournament would not be eligible to play in it, including top-seeded Kentucky. Duncan proposes teams with graduation rates of less than 40% be banned from postseason play. |
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