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Karen Morris, program director of the Advanced Placement Training and Incentive Program for Indiana (AP-TIP IN) in Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, has received the College Board’s inaugural Partnership Award for the Midwestern region. The award was presented by Greg Walker, the...

CREO Director and Professor of Sociology Mark Berends has been named an AERA Fellow. CREO'S DIRECTOR AND PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY HONORED Professor Berends will be joining the 2014 American Educational Research Association's Fellows in April. He is currently serving as the AERA Program Chair for the...

Mark Berends, the distinguished sociologist of education who directs the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) in Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives, has been named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). The AERA says its Fellows Program...

New research led by the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) points a way forward to improve certain teacher performance evaluation systems. These systems look closely at the question: To what degree did the teachers add value, that is, did students of...

This winter the University of Notre Dame is privileged to host 30 English teachers from Brazil, and an extra welcome offered by the South Bend community is expanding this international experience to local students and educators alike. The Brazilian visitors were selected from a pool of over 1000...

The Notre Dame Center for STEM Education has been awarded a $300,000 grant by the Spencer Foundation to study how indicators of student learning can influence—and help to improve—the instructional practices of middle-school science teachers in the classroom. This grant, part of the Foundation’s...