Morning Announcements: January 3, 2011

In an op-ed in today’s Washington Post, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan writes, “In the past two years, I have spoken with hundreds of Republican and Democratic mayors, governors and members of Congress. While we don't agree on everything, our core goals are shared - and we all want to fix NCLB to better support reform at the state and local level.”

The Houston Chronicle writes about a former high school dropout that is now a high school graduation coach: Craig Zeno grew up in public housing in southeast Houston believing he had three options in life. "I was told I was either going to be dead, in jail or on drugs," Zeno recalls. "I didn't want that." So, he fought for more. Zeno became a college graduate whose job now is to inspire struggling high school students with his own story of perseverance.