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A tradition called the “ACE Summer” has just begun for the eighteenth time, again embodying the University of Notre Dame’s commitment to sustain, strengthen, and transform Catholic K-12 education. On Friday, May 27, Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) welcomed its new class of 90...

Opportunities to make a difference in K-12 education will abound this summer as the University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) sponsors conferences covering a range of interests and initiatives. ACE conferences coming up in the next couple of months on the Notre Dame campus...

Announcing a historic conversation on the next generation of American schooling … THE SYSTEM: OPPORTUNITY, CRISIS, AND OBLIGATION IN K-12 EDUCATION When: 7:30 PM, Wednesday, April 13 Where: Leighton Concert Hall, DeBartolo Performing Arts Center (DPAC), University of Notre Dame Sponsored by the...

Charter schools are at the center of a growing national discussion about education reform. Daniel Lapsley, chair of Notre Dame’s psychology department and a fellow of the University’s Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI), will offer an introduction to this important subject in a lecture on...

he University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI) and Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) are making major contributions to support Haiti’s recovery from the earthquake of Jan. 12, 2010. One initiative to rebuild educational infrastructure is placing shovels in the ground...

People and organizations of the University of Notre Dame, including the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE), were honored with special awards from Catholic Charities USA at an Oct. 19 presentation ceremony in the press box of Notre Dame Stadium. Catholic Charities, which celebrates its 100th...

Fr. Ron Nuzzi and other faculty in the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) and Remick Leadership programs, in collaboration with several universities—-both national and international—-have successfully established a new Catholic Education Special Interest Group (SIG) in the American Educational...

Three professors in Notre Dame’s Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program in the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) are the authors of a forthcoming book that presents a promising “new way to sustain and strengthen Catholic schools” through action research. Research, Action, and Change: Leaders...

Three Notre Dame professors, Rev. Ronald Nuzzi, James Frabutt and Anthony Holter, have recently completed a national research study, Faith, Finances and the Future: The Notre Dame Study of U.S. Pastors, to be published by The University of Notre Dame’s Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Press...

Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C., professor of political science and director of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame, received a 2008 Presidential Citizens Medal in an Oval Office ceremony held Wednesday (Dec. 10). One of the highest honors the president can...