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What would happen if we granted access for some of the most impoverished children in our communities to attend society’s best, most elite schools? Would it benefit them? How would they fit in, and how would they be treated by their classmates? What would be the long-term impact on their lives, and...

This story was originally posted on the College of Arts and Letters website. Student engagement has long been recognized as key to academic success. Most research, however, has focused on engagement generally, across the school setting. Quantitative psychologist Ying “Alison” Cheng is working to...

Don Shalvey, the Deputy Director of US Programs for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, visited campus on Friday, October 11, 2019 for "Building Bridges, Empowering Educators, and Naming That Tune: A Conversation with an Education Reform Warrior"

Notre Dame, IN (October 9, 2019) - The Fostering Resilience Initiative , a part of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, will host a sports workshop for local youth this fall in Mugunda, Kenya, in conjunction with Notre Dame’s track and cross country teams. Over the...

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...