ACE in the News: Partnerships in California, Indiana, and Ireland

The Diocese of Orange in California has announced an initiative to enrich educational opportunities for students in Catholic schools, especially students of Hispanic descent, in partnership with the Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE). The initiative focuses on three schools--St. Anne School, St. Joseph School, and School of Our Lady. During the first phase, ACE Consulting will conduct a range of cultural, educational, and administrative evaluations, and next year these assessments will pave the way for an implementation phase of the initiative. The diocesan superintendent of schools is quoted as saying the partnership with ACE "really will provide a beacon of hope for these schools."

Packy Lyden, associate director of the Institute for Educational Initiatives (IEI), was interviewed Monday, Sept. 10, on the national Catholic radio program, the Son Rise Morning Show. He talked about ACE's engagement with Irish partners--and with Archbishop Charles Brown, Papal Nuncio to Ireland and a Notre Dame graduate--to share an interest in Catholic identity in schools on both sides of the Atlantic.

Mark Berends, the distinguished sociologist and IEI Fellow who directs the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity and the Research Center on Educational Policy within the IEI, talked with John Merrow's website, Learning Matters, about Notre Dame's new partnership with Indiana's Department of Education to expand research possibilities that will serve students in schools around the state and beyond. Listen to the interview with Ted Bauer of Learning Matters.