News and Events

Amy Langenkamp, O'Shaughnessy Associate Professor Chair of Education Studies

February 3, 2025

CREO Interim Director/Sociology Professor Amy Langenkamp interviewed on the "Experts Corner" of the ASA Sociology of Education Section

Mark Berends

January 23, 2025

Mark Berends placed on 2025 Edu-Scholar rankings

Maura Kraemer

January 22, 2025

Graduate Student Maura Kraemer's forthcoming paper in Social Science Research

Journalist Merrow Probes "Myths" at CREO Seminar

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. Veteran reporter John Merrow, whose stories appear on the PBS NewsHour and a...

Amy Langenkamp, O'Shaughnessy Associate Professor Chair of Education Studies

February 17, 2012

CREO's Langenkamp Wins PSA Award

Amy Langenkamp, O’Shaughnessy Assistant Professor of Educational Studies at the University of Notre Dame, has won the Distinguished Contribution to Sociological Perspectives Award for 2011 from the Pacific Sociological Association. The award honors Langenkamp’s article titled “Effects of Educational...

Dr. Mark Berends

January 18, 2012

Berends Selected as Journal Editor

Distinguished sociologist Mark Berends, director of Notre Dame’s Center for Research on Educational Opportunity and an Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI) Fellow, has been appointed as one of the incoming editors of the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Beginning with the...

October 6, 2011

Carbonaro Elected Chair of ASA Section

Bill Carbonaro has been elected chair of the Sociology of Education section of the American Sociological Association. The section chair is responsible for organizing all of the events for the Annual Meeting, as well as any administrative work that needs attention during the year. Bill is currently...

August 18, 2011

CREO Welcomes Two New Faculty Members

Megan Andrew and Amy Langenkamp have joined the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO), the Institute for Educational Initiatives, and the Department of Sociology as Assistant Professors. In particular, Langenkamp has received the O’Shaughnessy Assistant...

August 17, 2011

CREO's Carbonaro Honored for Service to Graduate Students

The Center for Research in Educational Opportunity (CREO) at the University of Notre Dame and its director Dr. Mark Berends congratulate assistant director Bill Carbonaro, who was awarded the University’s 2011 award for the outstanding Director of Graduate Studies. Carbonaro is the first recipient...

Berends Book on School Choice Reviewed in Washington Post

“School Choice and School Improvement,” the new book co-edited by IEI Fellow and sociologist Mark Berends, has been reviewed by a leading education journalist in The Washington Post . “It is refreshing to find a new book presenting some of the most recent findings, as disturbing as they might be to...

New Book Examines School Choice

Does school choice work as a strategy to improve schools and help students learn? A new book co-edited by Mark Berends, a Fellow in the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI), considers that question. Titled School Choice and School Improvement , the book from Harvard...

New Book: Pivotal Research on School Choice

Does school choice work as a strategy to improve schools and help students learn? A new book co-edited by Mark Berends, a Fellow in the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI), considers that question. Titled School Choice and School Improvement , the book from Harvard...

Guest Lecturers Probe Education and Social Justice

Two leading scholars studying the intersection of civil rights, education policy, urban policy, and minority opportunity will offer a pair of talks on Wednesday, March 23, as part of the Henkels Lecture Series, hosted by Notre Dame’s Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO). The...