2020 Laureate · K-12 Education
Joseph Krajcik
Lappan-Phillips Professor of Science Education at Michigan State University
Founder and Director of the CREATE for STEM Institute
Citation
Recipient of the 2020 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education — K-12 Education.
Biography
A former high school chemistry teacher, Joseph Krajcik has spent more than three decades building project-based science learning with teachers. As Lappan-Phillips Professor of Science Education at Michigan State University and founding director of the CREATE for STEM Institute, he helped shape the Next Generation Science Standards and has partnered with Detroit public schools for decades.
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