The Center for Research in Educational Opportunity (CREO) at the University of Notre Dame and its director Dr. Mark Berends congratulate assistant director Bill Carbonaro, who was awarded the University’s 2011 award for the outstanding Director of Graduate Studies. Carbonaro is the first recipient...

“School Choice and School Improvement,” the new book co-edited by IEI Fellow and sociologist Mark Berends, has been reviewed by a leading education journalist in The Washington Post . “It is refreshing to find a new book presenting some of the most recent findings, as disturbing as they might be to...

Does school choice work as a strategy to improve schools and help students learn? A new book co-edited by Mark Berends, a Fellow in the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI), considers that question. Titled School Choice and School Improvement , the book from Harvard...

Does school choice work as a strategy to improve schools and help students learn? A new book co-edited by Mark Berends, a Fellow in the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI), considers that question. Titled School Choice and School Improvement , the book from Harvard...

Two leading scholars studying the intersection of civil rights, education policy, urban policy, and minority opportunity will offer a pair of talks on Wednesday, March 23, as part of the Henkels Lecture Series, hosted by Notre Dame’s Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO). The...

Educational research projects with likely impacts on the future of schools were featured in ND Works on Feb. 11, 2011. The Notre Dame faculty/staff newspaper spotlighted the work of sociology professor Mark Berends , director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO) at the...

Mark Berends, Ph.D., Director of the National Center on School Choice, has joined the Institute for Educational Initiative as the new director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO). Professor Berends, who most recently served as Associate Professor of Public Policy and...