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Rising ninth graders from the Diocese of Tucson visit the Grotto at the University of Notre Dame for pre-college programming through PATH

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Notre Dame Campus Visit Promotes College Access for Rising High Schoolers

A summer trip to campus for a small group of rising ninth graders from the Southwest supports the University of Notre Dame’s mission to promote college access through a distinct...

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Notre Dame’s ACE Teaching Fellows Awarded AmeriCorps Grant

The University of Notre Dame’s ACE Teaching Fellows has received a grant from AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism. The funding will support training of 176 Volunteers...

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Proclaiming the Good News: ACE's School Pastors' Institute

"In a world of fake news, you are proclaiming the Good News!" So said Bishop Joseph J. Tyson of the Diocese of Yakima to a group of over 80 pastors...

August 9, 2018

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ACE Teachers Gain Valuable Experience in Local Schools

In a classroom at Navarre Middle School, Allie Olshefke has the students' attention to herself. Her mentor teacher watches as she prods a group of seventh graders to explain their...

August 2, 2018

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"Places of Healing": An Update on the American Indian Catholic Schools Network

Will Newkirk remembers the beauty he saw at White Earth Nation on an undergraduate spring break trip from Saint John's University in Minnesota. Years later, he recalls the maple-syrup tapping...

July 27, 2018

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ACE Teaching Fellows Conference: A Photo Essay

Members of ACE 24 showed off their capstone projects July 17 as they presented during the 4th annual ACE Teaching Fellows Conference in DeBartolo Hall. Twenty-two teams spoke about topics...

July 26, 2018

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Notre Dame Hosts Adelante Conference to Support Latino Students

"When I say, ‘The future of the Church is Latino,' I try to correct myself," said Fr. Joe Corpora, C.S.C., ACE's director of university-school partnerships, at the inaugural Adelante conference...

July 24, 2018

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Center for Literacy Education Hosts First Annual O'Shaughnessy Summer Literacy Institute

"Kids who identify themselves as poor readers read for one reason, and one reason only," said Ernest Morrell, co-director of ACE's Center for Literacy Education. "Because they have to." "The...

July 21, 2018

"Go to the Margins": Fr. Greg Boyle, SJ, Visits ACE

"It is a lie, when we talk of a God that doesn't comfort us," Fr. Greg Boyle, SJ, told the ACE community last week. "And so we go to the...

July 19, 2018

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Flannery O'Connor Honored with Michael Pressley Award for Excellence in Catholic Education

"My parents named me Flannery O'Connor . . . knowing of the author, but probably not knowing that my life would be centered around Catholic education." Flannery O'Connor, a member...

July 13, 2018