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Notre Dame’s ACE Teaching Fellows to Serve Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Columbus

The Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE), part of the Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI) at the University of Notre Dame, is excited to announce a new partnership with the Diocese...

Sister Paula Kleine-Kracht and Meghan Weyland

A Legacy of Faith, A Future of Hope: Meghan Weyland and the Mission of Nativity Academy

At Nativity Academy at St. Boniface in Louisville, Kentucky, students are formed for lives of purpose, possibility, and hope. As a Catholic middle school serving students in grades 6 through...

Investments in Cincinnati Help to Rewrite the Narrative of Catholic Schools

A Cincinnati investment fund's recently announced grant advancing St. Francis de Sales School and St. Cecilia School toward their goal of a great education for kids from all backgrounds testifies...

March 2, 2016

A Civics Field Trip that Will Make You Proud to be an American

Photo by Laura Moon/St. John the Evangelist School Lianne Taruc has been a Catholic school student all her life. Now a social studies teacher in Atlanta through Notre Dame's Alliance...

February 26, 2016

Notre Dame ACE Academies among 10,000 fighting for students' future in Sunshine State

On January 19, 2016, delegations of students, parents, teachers, leaders, parishioners, and other supporters from Notre Dame ACE Academies in the Dioceses of St. Petersburg and Orlando were among the...

February 19, 2016

Catholic Schools Week in Florida

I can only begin to describe what a gift it was to visit all six of the Florida ACE Academies during Catholic Schools Week. Excellence happens on purpose and I...

February 18, 2016

ACE Marathon 2016: Let Us Run with Perseverance the Race Marked Out for Us

How far would you run to support Catholic schools? 26.2 miles? For the last fifteen years, dozens of ACE Teachers, Remick Leaders, ACE graduates, and friends have joined together to...

February 17, 2016

Fr. Joe Corpora, C.S.C., Notre Dame scholars address challenges for Latino Catholic education

Luis Ricardo Fraga, Arthur Foundation Endowed Professor of Transformative Latino Leadership, Joseph and Elizabeth Robbie Professor of Political Science and co-director of the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino...

February 11, 2016

Every Student Succeeds Act: English Learning Children Not Left Behind

English learners (ELs) are the fastest growing population in U.S. schools at five million plus, and the newly minted Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), formerly known as No Child Left...

February 4, 2016

John Schoenig Featured on WSJ.com During Catholic Schools Week

John Schoenig, ACE's Senior Director of Teacher Formation and Education Policy, was featured on WSJ.com's Opinion Journal segment to talk about the successes and challenges faced by today's Catholic Schools.

February 2, 2016

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Notre Dame’s ACE Teaching Fellows to Serve Catholic Schools in the Diocese of Columbus

A Legacy of Faith, A Future of Hope: Meghan Weyland and the Mission of Nativity Academy