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Harold McGraw III discusses how education can evolve to meet the moment.

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From left, Harold McGraw III, Penn GSE Dean Katharine Strunk, David Wilson, Deborah Durado, Barbara Oakley, Robert McGraw, Suzanne McGraw, and Catalyst @ Penn GSE's Michael Golden at the McGraw Prize celebration on November 8.
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As they accepted their Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prizes in Education on November 8 at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City, Debra Duardo, David Wilson, and Barbara Oakley each reflected on their lives, and how these questions have pushed them forward.

Prize Winner News

The 2022 McGraw Prize winner now leads Penn GSE’s McGraw Center for Educational Leadership.

2023 McGraw Winner Headshots
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Debra Duardo, David Wilson, and Barbara Oakley selected for outstanding achievement in pre-K–12, higher education, and lifelong learning.

On-Demand Webinar

Dr. Roy Pea examines the implications of distributed intelligence for the design of educational systems, learning technologies, and the conduct of everyday life.

On-Demand Webinar

President Dunn discusses the moral imperative for public and private institutions to expand access to the benefits of higher education to the indigenous people of the United States and the uniquely holistic approach to student success that institutions must take to be successful.

On-Demand Webinar

Dr. Cheryl Logan shares how to prepare for successful and effective leadership when the context is chaos—including socio-political strife, workforce challenges, and rapidly evolving instructional shifts.

McGraw Family posing with Penn GSE Dean Pam Grossman in front of the Penn GSE building
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$16.25 million will create a new center for educational leadership and continue the McGraw Prize.
 

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A Town Hall discussion on the future of educational leadership moderated by Penn GSE Dean Pam Grossman.

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We honored the 2022 McGraw Prize winners, Cheryl Logan (Omaha Public Schools), Barry Dunn (South Dakota State University), and Roy Pea (Stanford University), with an in-person celebration at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City on November 3, 2022.

Headshots of the 2022 McGraw Prize Winners
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Dr. Cheryl Logan, Dr. Barry Dunn and Dr. Roy Pea selected for outstanding achievement in pre-K-12, higher education and learning science research.

On-Demand Webinar

Doug and Lynn Fuchs detail the process of combining peer-mediated learning and complementary structured small-group and one-to-one interventions to synergistically impact students’ academic outcomes and social well-being.

On-Demand Webinar

Carol D. Lee discusses how transformational conceptions of what supports robust learning challenge the assumptions that undergird the ways we design schooling environments to support learning.

On-Demand Webinar

Professor Baraniuk discusses the past, present, and future of the open access education movement, from Connexions to Coursera, and from OpenStax College to edX.

On-Demand Webinar

Graesser discusses with Penn GSE’s Ryan Baker how artificial intelligence can simulate conversation and advance learning for adults.

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We celebrate the 2021 winners Douglas H. and Lynn S. Fuchs (AIR, Vanderbilt), Richard Baraniuk (Rice), and Carol D. Lee (Northwestern) whose work in preK–12 education, higher education, and learning science research are making a huge difference in the lives of students.

Headshot of Sarita E. Brown
Prize Winner News

Excelencia in Education, co-founded in 2004 by McGraw Prize winner Sarita E. Brown, recently received the largest gift in the organization’s history from philanthropists MacKenzie Scott and her husband, Dan Jewett.

Headshot of Mitchel Resnick
Prize Winner News

On October 13, 2021, the 2011 McGraw Prize winner Mitchel Resnick was named this year’s recipient of the LEGO prize—an honor that, since 1985, has been presented each year to an individual or organization that has made outstanding contributions to the lives of children.

Headshot of Reshma Saujani
Prize Winner News

2018 McGraw Prize winner Reshma Saujani is well known as the Founder and CEO of the international nonprofit, Girls Who Code. Most recently, however, she founded the Marshall Plan for Moms movement.