Research | Institute for Educational Initiatives

"La educación Cristiana es el arte de guiar a los jóvenes hacia su plenitud, a imagen de Jesucristo" - Basilio Moreau, CSC

Chile’s ‘Machuca’ Students: Long-term Effects of Social Integration in Elite Schools

St. Mary's Academy Students (New Orleans, 1937)

Education and Social Mobility Study: Historical Impact of Catholic School in the African Diaspora

Faith-based Education in Changing Social, Economic, and Political Contexts: Kenyan Catholic Education

This mixed-methods inquiry led by Fr. Bob Dowd, CSC, TJ D’Agostino, and John Mugo has drawn from the fields of political science and education policy in order to explore the relationship between a shifting policy landscape and the implications for faith-based schools in the Kenyan context.

Comparative Analysis of Education Policy: The Crossing Vectors of Funding and Autonomy

Notre Dame Law Professor Nicole Garnett is conducting a cross country legal analysis to explore the diverse legal policy environments in which Catholic schools operate, since legal rules shape in important ways how Catholic schools operate, whom they serve, and even what they are.