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Dr. Lynne Vallone is a professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden, and she will be one of the keynote speakers at the second meeting of the International Girls Studies Association , hosted at Notre Dame’s own McKenna Hall on February 28-March 3. She has written several books...

Dr. Laura Hamman-Ortiz is an educational linguist whose research explores how to support language and literacy learning for emergent bilingual students. Dr. Hamman-Ortiz is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Department of Educational Equity and Cultural Diversity (EECD) at the...

CREO Director Mark Berends is 161st among 200 scholars in the Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings for 2019. His research and publications focus on educational reform and school choice. For more information, click here .

Dr. Eric Grodsky of the University of Wisconsin and Ph.D. Candidate Jaymes Pyne of the University of Wisconsin presented "Student Absenteeism & the Opportunity to Learn" at the CREO Seminar on Monday, February 11, 2019. Dr. Grodsky is a Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies at the...

In the previous blog post, we offered five suggestions for raising student voice and what this might look like in the classroom: (1) enter into conversations with students; (2) ask hard questions of texts; (3) find a balance between student-led and teacher-led learning ecologies in the classroom; (4...

When we think about our own lives, it seems obvious that our ability to make decisions for ourselves is one of our most cherished rights. Having agency and the ability to determine what is best for ourselves, known as “ voice and choice ” in the education world, impacts our experiences in profound...