Professor of English Steven Yao met Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at the U.S. Department of Education's Back-To-School Bus Tour kickoff event, which was held at Sequoia High School in Redwood City, Calif. Yao is currently serving as an American Council on Education Fellow for the 2012-13 academic year at Holy Names University in Oakland, Calif.

At this event Secretary Duncan moderated a discussion with a panel of contemporary education leaders, including Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy, and Andrew Ng, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab and co-founder of Coursera, an education platform offering free online courses.