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New Remick Research Designed to Deepen Scholarship That Sustains K-8 Principals

Pictured Frankie Jones, Remick faculty and one of seven researchers on the project. A survey of more than a thousand Catholic grade school principals will inform new research from the...

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Cristo Rey Founder Honored for Lifetime of Service to Catholic Education

The founder of Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, Fr. John P. Foley, S.J., has been honored for his life’s work to strengthen Catholic Schools by the...

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Remembering Rob Smith

Photo credit: Don Bosco Cristo Rey Rob Smith passed away on April 14 after a two-year battle with cancer. Rob was deeply committed to service, and he left a promising...

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2019 Lenten Reflections - Palm Sunday

Read this Sunday's Gospel Before Jesus enters into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, He asks his disciples to retrieve a colt tethered at the edge of town, stating only that "the...

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True Love Means Teaching Literacy Interventions

I'm taking a course called "Culturally Responsive Teaching," and it's rocking my world. People throw around the phrase "life changing" all too frequently, but this one makes the cut. I...

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Press Play: Dr. Melodie Wyttenbach

Welcome back to Press Play, ACE's new segment highlighting the latest and greatest publications coming out of the Institute for Educational Initiatives. Consider this part of the newsletter a movie...

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2019 Lenten Reflections - 5th Sunday of Lent

Read this Sunday's Gospel In this Sunday's Gospel, a woman is caught breaking the sixth commandment, and John the Evangelist offers us the rather odd detail that, in response to...

2019 Lenten Reflections - 4th Sunday of Lent

Read this Sunday's Gospel The Gospel reading for this 4th Sunday of Lent, the parable of the prodigal son, is likely familiar. A son leaves home, squanders his inheritance, and...