The McGraw Prize partners with Penn GSE to celebrate education changemakers
Past McGraw Prize in Education winners, from left, Sarita Brown, Alberto Carvalho, Christine Cunningham, and Chris Lehmann, discuss sustaining innovation in education with Penn GSE Dean Pam Grossman.
Since 1988, the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education has honored innovators who are transforming teaching and learning. But as the McGraw family thought about the future of the prize, they began looking for a partner to help build on the prize’s legacy.
The announcement was followed by a panel discussion featuring four past prize winners, and marks the kickoff to a series of events, webinars, and publications that will help educators and policymakers around the globe tap into the wealth of knowledge of past and future prize winners. Penn’s innovative group Catalyst @ Penn GSE will lead the efforts to help educators and change-makers put new ideas into practice.
Penn President Amy Gutmann (left), Suzanne McGraw, Harold McGraw III, and GSE Dean Pam Grossman, at the McGraw Prize launch event on Feb. 13.
“I’m excited about what this partnership is going to mean in the lives of all the young people who will benefit,” said Harold McGraw III.
“Finding answers to the most complex challenges requires new ways of thinking, and throughout its history, the McGraw Prize has done exactly that,” said Gutmann. “Its illustrious recipients have changed our understanding of learning and changed, frankly, how we teach.”
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