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IEI Fellow and Associate Professor of Economics Abigail Wozniak has been appointed to a senior economist post in the White House's Council of Economic Advisers. The CEA, with which she will serve a one year term, is the board that advises President Barack Obama and his staff on domestic and...

Prestigious $600,000 Award Recognizes Cheng, a Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, as Top Teacher-Scholar Bringing New Insights to the Field of Educational Assessment and Standardized Testing Ying “Alison” Cheng, associate professor in the Department of Psychology and a faculty...

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...