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“Was I hallucinating? Did that 12-year-old just pocket the body of Christ? For a second, the teacher in me thought, Oh no. The troublemaker in me thought, Oh yes. But Sister Yolanda’s hawk eyes had also spotted Henry mid-strum.”

Heaven Shrugged | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame When I was 25, I took a teaching job at a small Catholic school in a beautiful mountain town in northern Arizona. I was in charge of the sixth-grade homeroom — “home” for a year to a motley band of 12-year-olds. Educator and author Harry Wong had mapped it all out in his book that was like…

In Medora, Indiana, a remote town of 650 people, Notre Dame's Advanced Placement Teacher Investment Program opens a door to a world of opportunities for students in the tiny local school, Abigail Pesta ’91 reports:

Changing the Equation | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame How a Notre Dame initiative helps a tiny Indiana school advance its students’ aspirations

“America is at a crossroads. We risk undoing 300 years of development.”

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Our Fraying Social Fabric | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame As I carry my passport for proof of citizenship, I fear we’re squandering our national inheritance.