The Doing What Works (DWW) Website, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, translates research-based practices into practical tools to improve classroom instruction. The goal is to create an online library of resources to help teachers, schools, districts, states and technical assistance providers implement research-based instructional practice.

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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan got his start in education doing chores at an inner-city Chicago after-school center run by his mother. The Sue Duncan Center was attended by kids from elementary to high school age, nearly all of them African Americans struggling with the grind of urban poverty — crime, drugs, gangs, absent parents.

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