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    2024 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education winners (from left) Jody Lewen, Edmund W. Gordon, and Robert Lerman standing together
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    ‘I think that there is no higher calling’: 2024 McGraw Prize in Education winners see the impact of their work

    Gordon, Lerman, and Lewen were recognized with the 2024 McGraw Prize in Education for their groundbreaking work in helping learners cultivate their minds and improve their lives on Nov. 13 at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City.

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    Leading When the Context Is Chaos

    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.

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    Press Release

    The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation Makes Landmark Gift to Penn Graduate School of Education

    $16.25 million will create a new center for educational leadership and continue the McGraw Prize.
     

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    2022 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education Celebration

    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.

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    Town Hall Discussion on the Future of Educational Leadership

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

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    Press Release

    Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education Winners Announced

    Dr. Cheryl Logan, Dr. Barry Dunn and Dr. Roy Pea selected for outstanding achievement in pre-K-12, higher education and learning science research.

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    Intensifying Instruction to Strengthen Student Success

    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.

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    Addressing Learning Inequalities through Human Learning and Development

    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.

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    Open Education Resources (OER) as Disruptive Innovation

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

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    How Can Computer Agents Help Adults Learn?

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

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    2021 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education Celebration

    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.

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    Prize Winner News

    Keeping up with Winners: Mitchel Resnick

    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.

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    Keeping up with the Winners: Sarita E. Brown

    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.

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    Keeping up with the Winners: Reshma Saujani

    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.

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    Catching the Dream for America’s Children of Color

    Griffin explores how we can catch and cultivate the dreams and innate abilities of students of color through four commitments to them, and to each other.

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    Prize Winner News

    Keeping up with the Winners: Deborah Bial

    2013 McGraw Prize winner Deborah Bial is the President and Founder of the nonprofit, The Posse Foundation which uses its signature Posse model to support young scholars with diverse demographic backgrounds.

    Headshots of the 2021 McGraw Prize Winners

    Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education Announces 2021 Winners

    This year’s winners, announced today by the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, are Richard Baraniuk, Doug and Lynn Fuchs, and Carol D. Lee. Each is recognized for their achievements in higher education, preK-12 education, and learning science research respectively.

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    How will we create an education system where equity is the rule?

    An interactive session with Saujani on how we can transform the education system to support all learners.

    Reshma Saujani, Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code
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    How to create an education system where equity is the rule

    Reshma Saujani, the founder and CEO of Girls Who Code, was inspired to form the non-profit organization after noticing the dearth of girls in computer science classrooms.