2021 Laureate · 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
Citation
Recipient of the 2021 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education — K-12 Education.
Biography
Lynn Fuchs and Doug Fuchs are trailblazers in special education. Across four decades of meticulous research at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College and the American Institutes for Research, they developed curriculum-based measurement, Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies and responsiveness-to-intervention approaches now used in classrooms nationwide.
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