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This article first appeared in Phi Delta Kappan. Over the last 30 years, the school choice movement has been one of the most prominent large-scale reform efforts in American education. Arguably, only the national movement to promote rigorous learning standards and test-based accountability has...

Congratulations to Professor Anna Haskins on winning the 2021 William Julius Wilson Early Career Award. The award is bestowed by the Inequality, Poverty, & Mobility Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in recognition of Anna's excellent contributions to the study of inequality. Her...

Mark Berends , a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame who currently directs the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and serves as an associate vice president for research, has been appointed director of the University’s Institute for Educational Initiatives...

On Friday, March 5, the Center for Research on Education Opportunity (CREO) and the Notre Dame Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research (ND PIER) hosted "Scholarship and the Press: How We Disseminate Research"—a research panel featuring members of the press and the academy. The panel...

Two professors from the University of Notre Dame and the Institute for Educational Initiatives are among the 200 scholars named to the 2021 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings , an annual listing published by Education Week of academics who had the year’s biggest impact on educational practice and...