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Four ACE Teaching Fellows joined 10,000 English education teachers, scholars, and researchers in Baltimore recently for the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

Wilson Barrett, Emma Doerfler, Tracey Schirra, and Matt Sheber Howard joined ACE professors Mike Macaluso and Kati Macaluso to present at NCTE’s flagship conference.

As we enter into a new year, we also look back on the past year and our most popular news stories and blog posts. 

Joseph Connor has worn many hats in the fight for education reform. He has alternately worked as a teacher, a research analyst, in-house legal counsel, and as a pro bono attorney. Most recently, Joseph has continued his school choice work by becoming a member of the 11th cohort of the Alliance for Catholic Education’s Reform Leaders’ Summit.

For 27 years, students have applied to ACE’s Teaching Fellows program from the comfort of their dorm rooms or the solitude of a campus library. Few have felt the call to become an ACE teacher while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces, but that is exactly where Ryan Hinton found himself in July of 2003.

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“Our family can’t afford to send our kids to a Catholic school.”

Working in education since 1982, Dr. John Dolan hears this type of comment often. Now the head of school at St. Mary’s Lynn in Lynn, Massachusetts, he sees firsthand how this sentiment can negatively impact a school’s enrollment, revenues, and financial aid.