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During the 2014 Annual Conference for the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Dr. Mark Berends was interviewed on the research of school choice issues. Berends discusses the need to research beyond similarities and differences between traditional public schools and charter schools. He...

AP-TIP IN (Indiana’s Advanced Placement Teacher Investment Program) is pleased to announce the fourth cohort of nine Indiana public high schools selected to implement its model for growing math, science and English Advanced Placement* courses that prepare students for success in colleges and careers...

University of Notre Dame psychologist Darcia Narvaez has been named a fellow of the American Educational Research Association, an honor bestowed on academics with notable and sustained research achievements. Narvaez, a professor of psychology and fellow in the Institute for Educational Initiatives...

Inequality is increasing in America, widening the gap between rich and poor. What implications does this have for America’s youth and their chances for upward mobility? What can we do to help our youth grow and flourish? Robert D. Putnam, the Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy at...

A newly published, special issue of the Journal of Catholic Education sends a challenging message: The future of Latino enrollment in Catholic schools may be at a “critical juncture.” Notre Dame political scientist Luis Ricardo Fraga, a driving force behind the journal’s project, suggested this...

Luis Ricardo Fraga, Arthur Foundation Endowed Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science and co-director of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies, served as co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Catholic...