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Toka: The Revival of an Indigenous Sport

Toka is an Indigenous sport played by the Piipaash (Maricopa) and Akimel O’odham (Pima) nations. This traditional game is experiencing a resurgence thanks to passionate athletes like April Morago. When...

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Joseph, Ofelia, and Mary Gallo Receive ACE’s Most Prestigious Award

In October, several members of the ACE and IEI team traveled to Modesto, California to present the 2025 Notre Dame Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Education to Joseph, Ofelia...

"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

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

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

Scott Morgan Honored with 2017 Notre Dame Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Education

Scott Morgan was presented with the 2017 Notre Dame Award for Outstanding Contributions to Catholic Education by Fr. Tim Scully, C.S.C., the Hackett Family Director of the Institute for Educational...

November 3, 2017

"The ‘A‘ Word: Accountability — The Dirty Word of Today's Education Reform" from The 74

Accountability. On its surface, the word simply means a willingness to accept responsibility for one's actions. Accountability as applied to schools, however, has become so twisted and polarizing that it...

October 30, 2017

Moments with Multicultural Saints: Mother Marie Alphonsine Danil Ghattas

English as a New Language Program's Moments with Multicultural Saints are intended to provide useful classroom takeaways that will help you to broaden perspectives, teach about the universal Church, and...

October 30, 2017

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Toka: The Revival of an Indigenous Sport

Joseph, Ofelia, and Mary Gallo Receive ACE’s Most Prestigious Award