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.
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Teaching Science and Math: Formula for Dialogue
May 22, 2012 • • Categories: Default and Featured
A day of discussions and workshops devoted to one of the most crucial issues in education—bringing world-class aptitude in science and math to the next generation of U.S. citizens—will cap the Notre Dame Forum series on “Reimagining School” on June 12.
Leading experts in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education from around the country will join with local practitioners at a “Forum on K-20 STEM Education” to focus on recent developments in the teaching and learning of those fields. They will pay special attention to K-12 contexts while also considering the years (K-20) spanning graduate studies. Read More
Journalist Merrow Probes "Myths" at CREO Seminar
May 08, 2012 • • Categories: Default and Featured
Many of the judgments Americans commonly accept about our educational system are myths, according to an award-winning education journalist who addressed an Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI) audience on April 30. Read More
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.
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.
Indiana has launched an initiative supporting college-level science and math in public high schools--a program administered by the IEI, spearheaded by the state's Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Bennett, and funded by partners headed by the National Math and Science Initiative. Click on the logo for more information about this effort to boost learning and teaching in Advanced Placement (R) courses, with support from the worlds of education, business, and government.
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CREO Seminar: Education Journalist John Merrow on "Myths"
CREO Seminar: Richard Rothstein on "The Incoherence of Federal Education Policy"
"Political Economy of K-12 Education Reform" Series: Stanford's Terry Moe on "Teacher Unions and Public Schools"
CREO Seminar: Brian Gill of Mathematica on "Achievement Effects of Charter School Management Organizations"
CREO Hosts Henkels Lecture: Gerald Grant on "Hope and Despair in the American City"
ESS Students talk about the minor: See the video
Senior Night: An overview of ESS. See the video.
Video introduction to CCF: Helping community, families, faculty
Videos from CCF conference: Human Nature and Early Experience
“Moral Landscapes” a blog by Darcia Narvaez of CCF (at Psychology Today)
Chicago Tribune on Dedication of our New Home
The Observer on Dedication of our New Home