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Mark Berends

August 23, 2021

Berends Writes "The Current State of School Choice in the United States" in Phi Delta Kappan

Dr. Chloe Gibbs

August 12, 2021

Chloe Gibbs Named New Director of the Program for Interdisciplinary Educational Research

Dr. Chloe Gibbs

July 24, 2021

Chloe Gibbs Receives Research Grant from AERA-NSF Grants Program

Patrick Graff

Patrick Graff is awarded the AERA Dissertation Grant

Congratulations to ND PIER Burns Fellow and CREO Graduate Student/Ph.D.Candidate Patrick Graff on the award of an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Grant.

Mark Berends

Mark Berends appointed director of the Notre Dame Institute for Educational Initiatives

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, effect

Brian Fitzpatrick is awarded AERA Dissertation Grant

Congratulations to Sociology Ph.D. Candidate and ND PIER Fellow Brian Fitzpatrick on the award of an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Dissertation Grant. The grant provides support to advanced doctoral students doing analysis of large-scale data and writing doctoral dissertations.

ND PIER Burns Fellow Kenya Lee wins NSF Award

ND PIER Burns Fellow Kenya Lee was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Kenya is a second-year graduate student in the Sociology Department and the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity.

Research Panel - Scholarship and the Press: How We Disseminate Research

CREO and ND PIER Host Research Panel - "Scholarship and the Press: How We Disseminate Research"

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 incl

Mark Berends

University of Notre Dame announces Mark Berends associate vice president for research

This article was originally published on research.nd.edu. Mark Berends, professor of sociology and director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity, has been named an associate vice president for research at the University of Notre Dame effective July 1, 2020.

Patrick Graff

Graff Named to Inaugural NDIAS Graduate Fellowship Class

Patrick Graff, a fourth-year PhD student in the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) and Burns Fellow in the Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER), has been chosen as one of 12 students in the first cohort of the NDIAS-Graduate School Ph.D.

Dr. Pam Grossman

Dr. Pam Grossman Speaks on Exploring Core Practices in Teacher Education

Dr. Pam Grossman, the Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, visited the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame on Thursday, March 4, 2020, to deliver a talk entitled, "Exploring Core Practices in Teacher Education".

Dr. Mark Berends

February 25, 2020

Berends Elected to the National Academy of Education

Mark Berends, the director of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research on Educational Opportunity and a professor of sociology, has been elected to the National Academy of Education. The Academy advances high-quality research that improves education quality and practice.

Dr. Prudence Carter

February 21, 2020

Dr. Prudence Carter Delivers Lecture on Inequality in Society and Schools

On Friday, February 21, 2020, Dr. Prudence Carter, Dean of the Graduate School of Education at UC Berkeley, visited Notre Dame to deliver "From the Macro to the Micro: Boundaries and Educational (In)equality in Society and Schools" in Remick Commons of Visitation Hall.