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Arne Duncan and NCAA Differ on How to Score Teams' Academic Success

Chronicle of Higher Education

March 17, 2010

Arne Duncan, U.S. secretary of education, has called on the National Collegiate Athletic Association to ban teams with graduation rates below 40 percent from future tournaments. The association responded that it shared the secretary's concern but not his proposed remedy. Graduation-success rates, which show the proportion of players who graduated within six years of entering college, are not current enough to be the basis for such a penalty, it says.

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