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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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ACE Teachers-in-Residence Return to Campus for an Instructional Leadership Summit

"The classroom," writes teacher educator Sharon Feiman-Nemser, "is not only a place to teach children, but a place to learn more about teaching and learning." Graduates of ACE's Teaching Fellows...

December 5, 2017

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Notre Dame's ESTEEM Program Spotlights Arielle Gannon (ACE 22)

This was first published on esteem.nd.edu. Arielle Gannon, who graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in theoretical physics, completed Notre Dame's Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) program where...

December 4, 2017

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Boston ACE Advocates: A Home "BACE" for Catholic School Supporters

Boston is one of the few major metropolitan hubs throughout the United States without a formal community of ACE Teaching Fellows. With nearly 75 ACE graduates living in the Boston...

November 30, 2017

"School Choice Creates Challenges for Parents. What Are Cities Doing to Help?" From Education Week

School choice has created unique challenges for cities—especially when it comes to making sure parents can navigate all the school options before them. Civic and community leaders across the country...

November 29, 2017

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

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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

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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