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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...

25 Catholic Schools from New England Attend Regional LEI

This past October 2-4, in partnership with the Diocese of Providence, the Alliance for Catholic Education held an off-campus Latino Enrollment Institute (LEI) in Warwick, Rhode Island. The LEI welcomed...

November 28, 2017

Teachers Helping Teachers: Ellen Murphy, ACE 22

Ellen Murphy, a graduate of the 22nd Cohort of ACE Teaching Fellows, chose to remain at McGill-Toolen Catholic High School, her ACE placement school in Mobile, Alabama, where she teaches...

November 21, 2017

ACE Advocates Launches "Teachers Helping Teachers" Initiative

In its nearly 25 years of existence, the Alliance for Catholic Education has formed over 2,000 teachers and leaders in service to Catholic schools. In an effort to disperse the...

November 21, 2017

"Parents – Not Economists – Know Best" From RealClearEducation

A team of economists from elite universities recently published a study suggesting that parents can't truly assess school quality. Profiling the paper, The Atlantic notes that "if these results hold...

November 9, 2017

Scott Morgan Honored with 2017 Notre Dame Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Education

Scott Morgan was presented with the 2017 Notre Dame Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Education by Fr. Tim Scully, C.S.C., the Hackett Family Director of the Institute for Educational...

November 3, 2017

"The ‘A‘ Word: Accountability — The Dirty Word of Today's Education Reform" from The 74

Accountability. On its surface, the word simply means a willingness to accept responsibility for one's actions. Accountability as applied to schools, however, has become so twisted and polarizing that it...

October 30, 2017

Moments with Multicultural Saints: Mother Marie Alphonsine Danil Ghattas

English as a New Language Program's Moments with Multicultural Saints are intended to provide useful classroom takeaways that will help you to broaden perspectives, teach about the universal Church, and...

October 30, 2017

Jack Assaf: From Engineer to Educator

While a former mechanical engineering student at Notre Dame, Jack Assaf considered summer internships at companies like Ford Motor Company and General Electric. Instead, Jack chose to teach math to...

October 26, 2017

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

Cristo Rey Founder Honored for Lifetime of Service to Catholic Education