The IEI strives to improve the education of all youth, particularly the disadvantaged. Its teaching, scholarship, and service reflect Notre Dame’s commitment to advance K-12 schooling. Distinguished scholars, including IEI Fellows across the University, pursue interdisciplinary collaborations to make a difference in crucial areas of education reform, with particular attention to Catholic schools. Resources for educational excellence include distinctive graduate-level programs that form teachers and leaders.

News

IEI Seeks Postdoctoral Research Associate in Parental Choice and K-12 Catholic Schools

January 25, 2012 • • Categories: Default and Featured

The Institute for Educational Initiatives and the Alliance for Catholic Education at the University of Notre Dame seek applicants for a two-year Postdoctoral Research Associate in Parental Choice and K-12 Catholic Schools, to begin June 1, 2012. Read More

Nancy McAdams Retiring from her ESS post

January 24, 2012 • William Schmitt • Categories: Default and Featured

Nancy McAdams, an educator who has helped to give countless young people transformative experiences of learning and teaching, will retire as associate director of Notre Dame’s Education, Schooling, and Society (ESS) minor program, effective Feb. 14, 2012.

Nancy’s eight years in her crucial role with ESS—neither her first nor last term of service in education—have included teaching, advising, and otherwise assisting Notre Dame undergraduates who pursued the popular, interdisciplinary minor housed in the Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI). Read More

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Leadership Activities

ND Forum: A Yearlong Probe of Education

The 2011-2012 Notre Dame Forum, a yearlong series of panels, events, and opportunities for engagement with issues, will focus on the crisis in K-12 education in the United States. The Forum Committee is co-chaired by IEI Director Rev. Timothy Scully, C.S.C., and Nicole Stelle Garnett, professor of law and coordinator of policy for ACE. Click "Events" in the navbar for details.

New Books by Berends and Hallinan

School Choice and School Improvement is co-edited by Mark Berends, an IEI Fellow and Direcotr of CREO. Frontiers in Sociology of Education is edited by Maureen Hallinan, an IEI Fellow, CREO faculty member, and Notre Dame’s William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology.

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IEI Director Helps Support Haiti Recovery

Rev. Timothy Scully, C.S.C., has worked on projects for the post-earthquake recovery of Haiti's educational resources in collaboration with the Congregation of Holy Cross and other leaders from Notre Dame and internationally. Rebuilding is under way at the Basil Moreau School in Port-au-Prince, and the primary school at that site has been restored. Other projects to help revitalize Haiti's education system, with particular attention to its many Catholic schools, are under way through the IEI's Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE). Notre Dame's varied endeavors in Haiti, including those of the IEI and ACE, were discussed at a major forum on international development hosted by the University in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011; T.J. D'Agostino, associate director of ACE, was one of the panelists.