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The University of Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC), part of the Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI), has released its Five-Year Review , highlighting a half-decade of impact, innovation, and research in support of children and youth facing adversity...

More than 40 Haitian educators, practitioners, donors, religious leaders, and researchers convened at the University of Notre Dame on April 10–11, 2025, to chart bold, collaborative solutions for transforming Haiti’s education system. Hosted by Notre Dame’s Global Center for the Development of the...

What’s the best way for children to learn arithmetic—memorizing number values and multiplication tables or studying math at a deeper, conceptual level? Educators have long debated the merits of these two approaches, but a new report in Psychological Science in the Public Interest shows that children...

The Global Center for the Development of the Whole Child (GC-DWC), part of the Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI) at the University of Notre Dame, is proud to announce that 237 educators from Social Welfare schools across Telangana, India are participating in a transformative Whole Child...