Notre Dame
Education Center's mission is to provide a
community-based  , comprehensive
adult learning and literacy program for adults through the
provision of a variety of education programs underscored by
the values of respect, understanding and quality services. The
Notre Dame Education Center is "A
Place of Hope."
Students
who attend NDEC, participate in the development of the Center
as a place where family values are strengthened, community
building fostered and diversity respected and
celebrated.
In
setting the direction of the Center, participants will
use a form of critical social analysis as their tool for
understanding the complexities of the world and responding to
them. Therefore, the programs offered and the style of
learning will provide for reflection on the individual and
collective experience of the students and
teachers.
in South
Boston. The founding Sisters went out and rang a bell telling
everyone that a new school, a free school, would open in
September. Twelve hundred students showed up for classes!
The Sisters taught morning, afternoon and evening
classes.
Since then,
the Sisters have continued their educational mission in
the city and in 1992, when
Cardinal Cushing High School in South Boston closed its doors,
the Sisters chose to establish a comprehensive adult
educational center now known as "NDEC" or Notre Dame Education
Center. The Center continues to provide instruction to
adults during the morning, afternoon and evening.Today
at NDEC, immigrants who come from all over the world and other
adult learners have the opportunity to rebuild their lives as
they develop confidence in their ability to communicate in
English and further their education.
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