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Seeds of Service: From AICSN to ACE Teaching Fellows

A time of service is often framed as a commitment with an end date. But for Farrell Moorehead, Morgan Pulliam, and Declan Ryan-Lawton—three current ACE Teaching Fellows—that time became the...

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Notre Dame Football Chaplain and ACE Professor Fr. Nate Wills Releases Pray Like a Champion Today

New book shares sacred stories from the sidelines of the Fighting Irish NOTRE DAME, IN — Pray Like a Champion Today, a new book by University of Notre Dame football...

Today's Homework: Submarine Sandwiches, Basketball, and Lightsabers for All

Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Click. Liam's eyes fix on the clock above the blackboard. Tick. Tick. Still no sign of one of his students. "He showed up late if he...

April 25, 2018

"Education Reform Suffers When Politicians Put Careers Before Kids" from RealClearEducation

School choice remains a popular concept across the nation. A recent national poll by the American Federation for Children found that 63 percent of likely voters supported school choice. The...

April 19, 2018

Teachers Helping Teachers: Tim Hankins, ACE 22

In this fifth installment of Teachers Helping Teachers, Tim Hankins (ACE 22, Memphis) discusses how he uses art in his social studies and religion classes at Memphis Catholic Middle &...

April 19, 2018

"The Next 200 Years: Studying the Long-Term Effects of Catholic-to-Charter 'Conversion'" from EdChoice

In 2014, Andrew Kelly and I wrote Sector Switchers: Why Catholic Schools Convert to Charters and What Happens Next, an examination of 18 formerly Catholic schools that had "converted" (sorry...

April 10, 2018

Tulsa ACE Advocates: Truly One of A Kind

No man is an island, pay it forward, and those little fruit snacks from Costco. This is to say support comes in all shapes and sizes. Everybody needs it. Nobody...

April 8, 2018

The 2018 ACE Marathon: A Recap from Atlanta

3:01 a.m. Awake. Sleep is overrated. Have nothing to do in morning anyway…except run a half marathon. Literally. 3:04 a.m. Pep talk fails. Darkness. Stillness. Excitement. Nerves. Alarm set for...

April 6, 2018

Gabe Moreno: Creating Transformational Change in the Diocese of Dallas

"I hated it." "I had ‘joined the workforce,'" says Gabe Moreno. "The story that you're told you're supposed to do. You go to college, you get your degree, you join...

March 27, 2018

"I thought I would be attending just another conference; I was really joining a movement."

For six years, the Latino Enrollment Institute (LEI) has helped Catholic schools nationwide attract and better serve Latino families. Through the program’s history, the vast majority of these schools have...

March 26, 2018

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Seeds of Service: From AICSN to ACE Teaching Fellows

Notre Dame Football Chaplain and ACE Professor Fr. Nate Wills Releases Pray Like a Champion Today