The Archive

A digital museum of educational excellence

Since 1988, more than one hundred leaders have been honored for ideas that changed how the world learns. Every laureate is preserved here — citation, biography, and lasting contribution.

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113 Laureates

2025 · Lifelong Learning

Frederic Bertley

President & CEO, Center of Science and Industry (COSI)

2025 · Higher Education

Cathy N. Davidson

Distinguished Professor, Founder of the Futures Initiative, the CUNY Graduate Center, and Senior Advisor to the Chancellor, the City University of New York (CUNY)

2025 · K-12 Education

Rapelang Rabana & Joe Wolf

Co-CEOs, Imagine Worldwide

2024 · K-12 Education

Edmund W. Gordon

Director Emeritus, Gordon Institute for Advanced Study at the Teachers College, Columbia University

2024 · Lifelong Learning

Robert Lerman

Emeritus Professor of Economics, American University

2024 · Higher Education

Jody Lewen

President, Mount Tamalpais College

2023 · K-12 Education

Debra Duardo

Superintendent, Los Angeles County Office of Education

2023 · Lifelong Learning

Barbara Oakley

Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Oakland University

2023 · Higher Education

David Wilson

President, Morgan State University

2022 · Higher Education

Barry Dunn

President of South Dakota State University

2022 · K-12 Education

Cheryl Logan

Superintendent of Omaha Public Schools

2022 · Higher Education

Roy Pea

David Jacks Professor of Education & Learning Sciences at Stanford University, School of Education, and Computer Science (Courtesy)

2021 · Higher Education

Richard G. Baraniuk

C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Founder and Director, OpenStax

2021 · K-12 Education

Douglas H. & Lynn S. Fuchs

Fellows at the American Institutes for Research and Research Professors, Departments of Special Education and Psychology and Human Development, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University

2021 · Higher Education

Carol D. Lee

Edwina S. Tarry Professor Emerita

2020 · Higher Education

Estela Mara Bensimon

Founder & Director, Center for Urban Education

2020 · Higher Education

Michelene T. H. Chi

Regents Professor, Dorothy Bray Endowed Professor of Science and Teaching at Arizona State University and Director of the Learning and Cognition Lab

2020 · K-12 Education

Joseph Krajcik

Lappan-Phillips Professor of Science Education at Michigan State University

2018 · Higher Education

Arthur Graesser

Professor, Department of Psychology and the Institute of Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis

2018 · Higher Education

Timothy Renick

Senior Vice President for Student Success and Professor, Georgia State University

2018 · K-12 Education

Reshma Saujani

Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code

2017 · Lifelong Learning

Chris Anderson

Curator of TED

2017 · K-12 Education

Christine Cunningham

Founder and Director of Engineering is Elementary

2017 · Higher Education

Sandy Shugart

President of Valencia College

2016 · Higher Education

Anant Agarwal

CEO and Co-Founder of edX

2016 · K-12 Education

Alberto Carvalho

Superintendent of Miami-Dade Public Schools

2016 · Lifelong Learning

Sakena Yacoobi

Founder and Director of Afghan Institute of Learning

2014 · Lifelong Learning

Chris Lehmann

Founding Principal, Science Leadership Academy

2014 · Lifelong Learning

Andreas Schleicher

Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD

2014 · K-12 Education

Sara Martinez Tucker

CEO, National Math + Science Initiative

2013 · Higher Education

Deborah Bial

President and Founder, The Posse Foundation

2013 · K-12 Education

Mike Feinberg

Co-Founder, Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)

2013 · K-12 Education

Dave Levin

Co-Founder, Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)

2013 · Higher Education

Shirley A. Reed

President, South Texas College

2012 · K-12 Education

Timothy Daly

President, The New Teacher Project

2012 · Lifelong Learning

Sal Khan

Founder and Executive Director, Khan Academy

2012 · Lifelong Learning

John Merrow

Education Correspondent, PBS NewsHour; President, Learning Matters

2012 · K-12 Education

Ariela Rozman

CEO, The New Teacher Project

2011 · Higher Education

Robert Beichner

Professor Physics Department, NC State University

2011 · Higher Education

Mitchel Resnick

Professor of Learning Research, MIT Media Lab

2011 · K-12 Education

Julie Young

President and CEO of Florida Virtual School

2010 · Lifelong Learning

Christopher Cerf

Executive Producer, Between the Lions

2010 · Higher Education

Robert Mendenhall

President, Western Governors University

2010 · K-12 Education

Larry Rosenstock

CEO and Founder, High Tech High

2009 · Higher Education

Sarita E. Brown

President, Excelencia in Education

2009 · Higher Education

Linda Darling-Hammond

Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University

2009 · Higher Education

Joseph S. Renzulli

Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology, Neag School of Education

2008 · K-12 Education

Richard Blais

Vice President and Co-Founder, Project Lead The Way

2008 · Higher Education

Judith Berry Griffin

President and Founder, Pathways to College

2008 · Higher Education

Charles B. Reed

Chancellor, California State University (CSU) System

2007 · Higher Education

Lois B. DeFleur

President, Binghamton University, State University of New York

2007 · K-12 Education

Reynauld Smith

Social Studies and Advanced Placement American History Teacher

2007 · Lifelong Learning

Vivien Stewart

Vice President for Education Asia Society

2006 · Lifelong Learning

Norman R. Augustine

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Retired, of Lockheed Martin Corporation

2006 · K-12 Education

Wendy Kopp

President and Founder, Teach For America

2006 · K-12 Education

Vincent D. Murray

Principal of Henry W. Grady High School

2005 · K-12 Education

Barbara T. Bowman

Co-Founder, Erikson Institute

2005 · K-12 Education

Sharon Lynn Kagan

Co-director of the National Center for Children and Families

2005 · K-12 Education

Ellen Moir

Executive Director, New Teacher Center, University Of California, Santa Cruz

2004 · K-12 Education

Cecilia Cunningham

Founder and Director, Middle College National Consortium

2004 · K-12 Education

Geoffrey Canada

President and CEO, Harlem Children’s Zone, Inc.

2004 · K-12 Education

Janet E. Lieberman

Founder, The Middle College High School

2004 · K-12 Education

Robert Moses

Founder and President, “The Algebra Project”

2003 · K-12 Education

Mark A. Edwards

Superintendent, Henrico County Public Schools

2003 · K-12 Education

Kati Haycock

Director, The Education Trust

2003 · Higher Education

Carol A. Twigg

President and CEO, Center for Academic Transformation

2002 · K-12 Education

Libia Socorro Gil

Superintendent, Chula Vista Elementary School District, California

2002 · K-12 Education

Dennis Littky

Co-Director, The “MET” and Big Picture Learning; Founder and President, College Unbound

2002 · K-12 Education

Eric J. Smith

Superintendent, Anne Arundel County Public Schools

2001 · K-12 Education

Carl A. Cohn

Superintendent, Long Beach Unified School District

2001 · Higher Education

Freeman Hrabowski

President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

2001 · K-12 Education

Mary Catherine Swanson

Founder and Director, AVID

2000 · K-12 Education

Nancy S. Grasmick

Maryland State Superintendent of Schools

2000 · K-12 Education

Rod Paige

Superintendent Houston Independent School District

2000 · Lifelong Learning

Sandy Weill

Chairman and CEO, Citigroup, Inc.

1999 · Higher Education

John I. Goodlad

Director, Center for Educational Renewal, University of Washington

1999 · K-12 Education

Gerry House

President and CEO, Institute for Student Achievement

1999 · Lifelong Learning

James B. Hunt, Jr.

Governor of North Carolina

1998 · Higher Education

Alfredo de los Santos, Jr.

Vice Chancellor for Student and Educational Development

1998 · Higher Education

Elliot W. Eisner

Professor of Education and Art, Stanford

1998 · Higher Education

Paul A. Elsner

Chancellor, Maricopa Community College District

1998 · K-12 Education

Arthur Greenberg

Superintendent of Schools, Community School District 25, Flushing, New York

1997 · Lifelong Learning

Barbara Bush

Founder, Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy

1997 · Higher Education

JW Carmichael, Jr.

Professor, Xavier University

1997 · Higher Education

Diana Natalicio

President, The University of Texas at El Paso

1997 · K-12 Education

Vera M. White

Principal, Jefferson Junior High School

1996 · K-12 Education

Yvonne Chan

Principal, Vaughn Next Century Learning Center

1996 · K-12 Education

Donald W. Ingwerson

Superintendent of Schools, Los Angeles County, California

1996 · Lifelong Learning

Roy Romer

Governor of Colorado

1995 · K-12 Education

James E. (Gene) Bottoms

Director, High Schools That Work program, Southern Regional Education Board

1995 · Lifelong Learning

Ernest L. Boyer

Former U.S. Commissioner of Education

1995 · Higher Education

Mary E. Diez

Dean of Education, Alverno College

1994 · K-12 Education

Patricia M. Bolanos

Principal, Key and Renaissance Schools, Indianapolis, Indiana

1994 · Lifelong Learning

Harold Howe II

Former U.S. Commissioner of Education

1994 · K-12 Education

Alicia Thomas

Principal, Jackson-Keller Elementary School, San Antonio, Texas

1993 · K-12 Education

Sister Mary Brian Costello

R.S.M., Chief of Staff, Archdiocese of Chicago

1993 · Lifelong Learning

Sharon Darling

President and Founder, National Center for Family Literacy

1993 · Lifelong Learning

Booth Gardner

Governor of Washington

1992 · Higher Education

Shirley A. Hill

Curators’ Professor of Education and Mathematics, University of Missouri-Kansas City

1992 · K-12 Education

Thomas W. Payzant

Senior Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education

1992 · K-12 Education

Edward Zigler

Sterling Professor of Psychology, Yale University

1991 · Higher Education

Judith Taack Lanier

Dean of Education, Michigan State University; President, Michigan Partnership for New Education

1991 · Higher Education

Robert H. McCabe

President, Miami-Dade Community College District

1991 · K-12 Education

Theodore R. Sizer

Professor of Education, Brown University; Chairman Emeritus, Coalition of Essential Schools

1990 · K-12 Education

James P. Comer

Associate Dean, Yale School of Medicine, Yale Child Study Center

1990 · Higher Education

Clark Kerr

President Emeritus, University of California

1990 · K-12 Education

Richard C. Wallace, Jr.

Superintendent, Pittsburgh Public Schools, Pennsylvania

1989 · Higher Education

Kenneth B. Clark

Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus, CUNY

1989 · Lifelong Learning

Richard W. Riley

Governor of South Carolina

1989 · Higher Education

Kathleen A. Ross

President, Heritage College

1988 · Lifelong Learning

Terrel H. Bell

Former U.S. Secretary of Education

1988 · Lifelong Learning

Helen Crouch

President, Literacy Volunteers of America

1988 · Lifelong Learning

Claiborne Pell

United States Senator (D-RI)

Archive records and portraits are drawn from the official McGraw Prize archive at mcgrawprize.com.

A digital museum of educational excellence

Frederic Bertley

Cathy N. Davidson

Rapelang Rabana & Joe Wolf

Edmund W. Gordon

Robert Lerman

Jody Lewen

Debra Duardo

Barbara Oakley

David Wilson

Barry Dunn

Cheryl Logan

Roy Pea

Richard G. Baraniuk

Douglas H. & Lynn S. Fuchs

Carol D. Lee

Estela Mara Bensimon

Michelene T. H. Chi

Joseph Krajcik

Arthur Graesser

Timothy Renick

Reshma​ ​Saujani​

Chris Anderson

Christine Cunningham

Sandy Shugart

Anant Agarwal

Alberto Carvalho

Sakena Yacoobi

Chris Lehmann

Andreas Schleicher

Sara Martinez Tucker

Deborah Bial

Mike Feinberg

Dave Levin

Shirley A. Reed

Timothy Daly

Sal Khan

John Merrow

Ariela Rozman

Robert Beichner

Mitchel Resnick

Julie Young

Christopher Cerf

Robert Mendenhall

Larry Rosenstock

Sarita E. Brown

Linda Darling-Hammond

Joseph S. Renzulli

Richard Blais

Judith Berry Griffin

Charles B. Reed

Lois B. DeFleur

Reynauld Smith

Vivien Stewart

Norman R. Augustine

Wendy Kopp

Vincent D. Murray

Barbara T. Bowman

Sharon Lynn Kagan

Ellen Moir

Cecilia Cunningham

Geoffrey Canada

Janet E. Lieberman

Robert Moses

Mark A. Edwards

Kati Haycock

Carol A. Twigg

Libia Socorro Gil

Dennis Littky

Eric J. Smith

Carl A. Cohn

Freeman Hrabowski

Mary Catherine Swanson

Nancy S. Grasmick

Rod Paige

Sandy Weill

John I. Goodlad

Gerry House

James B. Hunt, Jr.

Alfredo de los Santos, Jr.

Reshma Saujani