From 2009 through 2014, David Whitman was Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s chief speechwriter, although he did not draft any of Secretary Duncan’s remarks on for-profit colleges. For the better part of two decades, Whitman reported and wrote for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism, a 2008 book that examined the models of six high-performing inner-city schools. Whitman attended a selective private liberal arts college and a for-profit massage therapy school and received an excellent education at both institutions.
