Presidential Success

Pick two people on the Presidential Success list and research them for 20mins.

Give a brief description of each person in your blog.   Their title, responsibilities, life...etc.

1.  Vice President: The 47th Vice President of the U.S. is Joe Biden born in Scranton, Pennsylvania,1942. He married Jill Jacobs in 1977. They have three children. He works on crinimal justice issues and an important role in shaping U.S. foreign policy. Biden also is the chair of the administration’s Middle Class Task Force. He has been at the forefront of issues and legislation related to terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, post-Cold War Europe, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia.

2. Secretary of Education: The Secretary of Education is Arne Duncan who was born November 6, 1964 in Chicago. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bacholores Degree in Sociology. He married Karen Luann and have two children. In 1999, Duncan was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff for former Chicago Public Schools CEO.  His role is to ask states to vie for federal education dollars by submitting proposals that include reforms such as expanding charter schoools and judging teachers partly on how well their students do on standarized tests. He wants to be fixing the Bush Administration's No Child Left Behind law; to make the tests better so they are prepard for when they graduate.