See videos and blog posts from Secretary Duncan's back-to-school bus tour across 8 states.

Congress passed and President Obama signed into law a bill that provides $10 billion to support an estimated 160,000 education jobs nationwide. See funding and teacher jobs potentially saved for your state.

Secretary Duncan announced that nine states and D.C. have won grants in the second phase of the Race to the Top competition.

If America is to regain its pre-eminence in education, we owe it to our teachers to share with them useful data and feedback, Secretary Duncan said in a speech in Little Rock, Arkansas. See video clips. Read the speech.