From the course: Arne Duncan Interview: Education and Reducing Violence

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Lessons learned in Arne Duncan's career

Lessons learned in Arne Duncan's career

- Yeah, this work is um, it is fascinating, it's inspiring, it's really hard, it's heartbreaking, it's beyond humbling, and the lessons that the guys are teaching me and my team every single day are unbelievable, and these are men we're working with not boys, not little kids. I say all the time we are co-designing with them and if something's working great we'll keep going and do more. If something's not working please stop us, we'll do something else. And their willingness to be so honest and real with us has been hugely helpful. So we've made lots of mistakes, lots of hard lessons. What's most surprised me, a couple things. These are tough guys, these guys who have been through a lot. I didn't begin to realize when we started, it's been true in almost every cohort, that about a third of our guys are basically homeless. I just, I don't know why, I just sort of assumed that they would have a roof over their heads. And our first cohort we had a guy living on a porch, we had a guy…

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