Edmund W. Gordon, 2024 Prize Winner

Dr. Edmund W. Gordon, a luminary in education, has dedicated over six decades to transforming pre-K–12 education through his visionary leadership, pathbreaking scholarship, and profound commitment to promoting equity and access to quality education for all students. He has had an enduring, deep, and wide impact on education, psychology, and social science research. An early champion of supplementary education in its many forms—including preschool education, summer learning, tutoring, and extracurricular activities—Dr. Gordon was an architect of the federal Head Start program, serving as its original Director of Research and Evaluation. As a distinguished emeritus professor at Yale University and the Teachers College, Columbia University, Director Emeritus of the Gordon Institute for Advanced Study at the Teachers College, and Honorary President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), he continues to inspire, mentor, and lead at the age of 103.