A team including Nicole McNeil, a professor of psychology and the director of the Education, Schooling, and Society program at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a four-year, $2 million grant to leverage technology to improve children’s understanding of mathematical equivalence. Funded

Faculty members from the Institute for Educational Initiatives were recognized by Dr. Marie Lynn Miranda, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost at the University of Notre Dame, for milestones, promotions, and awards.  Awards Dr.

Nicole McNeil, a professor of psychology, the Alliance for Catholic Education College Professor, and director of the Education, Schooling, Society (ESS) minor in the Institute for Educational Initiatives, has been awarded the 2021 Faculty Award by the University of Notre Dame. The Faculty Award sin

The University of Notre Dame’s Academic Council voted unanimously this week to make Education, Schooling, and Society (ESS) a supplementary major, allowing students to take ESS courses and complement their primary major in a more intensive way.  ESS had previously been a 15-credit minor exploring t

Notre Dame senior Paige Curley has won the 2020 Frabutt Prize for Outstanding Education Research in the Community for her work bringing an expanded literary canon to students in early grades. Curley, an English major with minors in Education, Schooling, and Society (ESS) and Latino Studies, won the

Children's understanding of math equivalence in elementary school predicts their algebra readiness in middle school. Unfortunately, most children struggle to understand this foundational concept. Dr.

Nicole McNeil, the Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Education, Schooling, and Society, an ACE Professor of Psychology, and a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, has been selected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.   The Association is a nonprofit org