Given an opportunity to talk one-on-one with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the newspaper in Georgia Southern University’s hometown asked him what his department is doing about student debt. In the 10-minute phone interview Monday evening, the Statesboro Herald also asked Duncan about Race to the Top grants to the states for K-12 education and whether there is an overemphasis on testing. Duncan was actually in Carrolton, where he visited Southwire, a cable manufacturer that places at-risk students in jobs in a program with the Carroll County school system.