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On Monday, October 7th, Dr. Ashley Rogers Berner, the Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy, visited the University of Notre Dame to present the 2019 Notre Dame Lecture on Education Policy. Her talk was entitled, "Education Pluralism: What It Is, and Why It Matters".

Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) founder Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C., announced he will step down from his role as director of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame and become director emeritus of the institute beginning in January. “During the more than...

This article was originally published by Carrie Gates on al.nd.edu. Women are most likely to experience violence from their intimate partners when they are young — and when they are pregnant. Exposure to violence during that critical time is associated with a variety of negative outcomes for both...

On Monday, September 23, 2019, Dr. Jeremy Fiel, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, delivered the lecture "Can Democratizing Educational Opportunities Reduce School Segregation?" in Jenkins-Nanovic Hall.

Mark Berends, a professor of sociology and the director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) at Notre Dame, has been awarded a $540,000 two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences for his project , “School Improvement in Indiana...

A team led by Dr. Gina Svarovsky of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for STEM Education will conduct a three-year study to examine how engineering experiences can make a lasting impression on children and their families, ultimately having the potential to influence the children’s interests...