Prize Winners
Displaying 1 through 109 of 109 winners
Director Emeritus, Gordon Institute for Advanced Study at the Teachers College, Columbia University
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Pre-K-12 Education
Emeritus Professor of Economics, American University
Fellow, The Urban Institute
Co-Founder, Apprenticeships for America
Fellow, The Urban Institute
Co-Founder, Apprenticeships for America
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Lifelong Learning
David Jacks Professor of Education & Learning Sciences at Stanford University, School of Education, and Computer Science (Courtesy)
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Learning Science Research
C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Founder and Director, OpenStax
Rice University
Rice University
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Higher Education
Fellows at the American Institutes for Research and Research Professors, Departments of Special Education and Psychology and Human Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
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Pre-K-12 Education
Edwina S. Tarry Professor Emerita
School of Education and Social Policy
Northwestern University
School of Education and Social Policy
Northwestern University
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Learning Science Research
Founder & Director, Center for Urban Education
University Professor & Dean’s Professor in Educational Equity
Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
University Professor & Dean’s Professor in Educational Equity
Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
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Higher Education
Regents Professor, Dorothy Bray Endowed Professor of Science and Teaching at Arizona State University and Director of the Learning and Cognition Lab
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Learning Science Research
Lappan-Phillips Professor of Science Education at Michigan State University
Founder and Director of the CREATE for STEM Institute
Founder and Director of the CREATE for STEM Institute
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Pre-K-12 Education
Arthur Graesser
Professor, Department of Psychology and the Institute of Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis
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Learning Science Research
Timothy Renick
Senior Vice President for Student Success and Professor, Georgia State University
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Higher Education
Reshma Saujani
Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code
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Pre-K-12 Education
Chris Anderson
Curator of TED
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International Education
Christine Cunningham
Founder and Director of Engineering is Elementary
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Pre-K-12 Education
Sandy Shugart
President of Valencia College
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Higher Education
Anant Agarwal
CEO and Co-Founder of edX
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Higher Education
Alberto Carvalho
Superintendent of Miami-Dade Public Schools
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Pre-K-12 Education
Sakena Yacoobi
Founder and Director of Afghan Institute of Learning
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International Education
Chris Lehmann
Founding Principal, Science Leadership Academy
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Rising Star
Andreas Schleicher
Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD
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Global
Sara Martinez Tucker
CEO, National Math + Science Initiative
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Deborah Bial
President and Founder, The Posse Foundation
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Mike Feinberg
Co-Founder, Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)
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Dave Levin
Co-Founder, Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)
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Shirley A. Reed
President, South Texas College
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Timothy Daly
President, The New Teacher Project
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Sal Khan
Founder and Executive Director, Khan Academy
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John Merrow
Education Correspondent, PBS NewsHour; President, Learning Matters
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Ariela Rozman
CEO, The New Teacher Project
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Robert Beichner
Professor Physics Department, NC State University
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Mitchel Resnick
Professor of Learning Research, MIT Media Lab
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Julie Young
President and CEO of Florida Virtual School
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Christopher Cerf
Executive Producer, Between the Lions
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Robert Mendenhall
President, Western Governors University
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Larry Rosenstock
CEO and Founder, High Tech High
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Sarita E. Brown
President, Excelencia in Education
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Linda Darling-Hammond
Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University
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Joseph S. Renzulli
Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology, Neag School of Education
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Richard Blais
Vice President and Co-Founder, Project Lead The Way
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Judith Berry Griffin
President and Founder, Pathways to College
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Charles B. Reed
Chancellor, California State University (CSU) System
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Lois B. DeFleur
President, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Reynauld Smith
Social Studies and Advanced Placement American History Teacher
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Vivien Stewart
Vice President for Education Asia Society
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Norman R. Augustine
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Retired, of Lockheed Martin Corporation
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Wendy Kopp
President and Founder, Teach For America
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Vincent D. Murray
Principal of Henry W. Grady High School
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Barbara T. Bowman
Co-Founder, Erikson Institute
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Sharon Lynn Kagan
Co-director of the National Center for Children and Families
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Ellen Moir
Executive Director, New Teacher Center, University Of California, Santa Cruz
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Geoffrey Canada
President and CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc.
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Janet E. Lieberman
Founder, The Middle College High School
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Robert Moses
Founder and President, “The Algebra Project”
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Mark A. Edwards
Superintendent, Henrico County Public Schools
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Kati Haycock
Director, The Education Trust
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Carol A. Twigg
President and CEO, Center for Academic Transformation
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Libia Socorro Gil
Superintendent, Chula Vista Elementary School District, California
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Dennis Littky
Co-Director, The “MET” and Big Picture Learning; Founder and President, College Unbound
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Eric J. Smith
Superintendent, Anne Arundel County Public Schools
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Carl A. Cohn
Superintendent, Long Beach Unified School District
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Freeman Hrabowski
President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Mary Catherine Swanson
Founder and Director, AVID
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Nancy S. Grasmick
Maryland State Superintendent of Schools
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Rod Paige
Superintendent Houston Independent School District
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Sandy Weill
Chairman and CEO, Citigroup, Inc.
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John I. Goodlad
Director, Center for Educational Renewal, University of Washington
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Gerry House
President and CEO, Institute for Student Achievement
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James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor of North Carolina
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Alfredo de los Santos, Jr.
Vice Chancellor for Student and Educational Development
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Elliot W. Eisner
Professor of Education and Art, Stanford
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Paul A. Elsner
Chancellor, Maricopa Community College District
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Arthur Greenberg
Superintendent of Schools, Community School District 25, Flushing, New York
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Barbara Bush
Founder, Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy
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JW Carmichael, Jr.
Professor, Xavier University
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Diana Natalicio
President, The University of Texas at El Paso
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Vera M. White
Principal, Jefferson Junior High School
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Yvonne Chan
Principal, Vaughn Next Century Learning Center
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Donald W. Ingwerson
Superintendent of Schools, Los Angeles County, California
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Roy Romer
Governor of Colorado
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James E. (Gene) Bottoms
Director, High Schools That Work program, Southern Regional Education Board
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Ernest L. Boyer
Former U.S. Commissioner of Education
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Mary E. Diez
Dean of Education, Alverno College
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Patricia M. Bolanos
Principal, Key and Renaissance Schools, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Harold Howe II
Former U.S. Commissioner of Education
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Alicia Thomas
Principal, Jackson-Keller Elementary School, San Antonio, Texas
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Sister Mary Brian Costello
R.S.M., Chief of Staff, Archdiocese of Chicago
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Sharon Darling
President and Founder, National Center for Family Literacy
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Booth Gardner
Governor of Washington
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Shirley A. Hill
Curators’ Professor of Education and Mathematics, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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Thomas W. Payzant
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Edward Zigler
Sterling Professor of Psychology, Yale University
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Judith Taack Lanier
Dean of Education, Michigan State University; President, Michigan Partnership for New Education
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Robert H. McCabe
President, Miami-Dade Community College District
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Theodore R. Sizer
Professor of Education, Brown University; Chairman Emeritus, Coalition of Essential Schools
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James P. Comer
Associate Dean, Yale School of Medicine, Yale Child Study Center
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Clark Kerr
President Emeritus, University of California
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Richard C. Wallace, Jr.
Superintendent, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Pennsylvania
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Kenneth B. Clark
Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus, CUNY
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Richard W. Riley
Governor of South Carolina
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Kathleen A. Ross
President, Heritage College
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Terrel H. Bell
Former U.S. Secretary of Education
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Helen Crouch
President, Literacy Volunteers of America
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Claiborne Pell
United States Senator (D-RI)
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