2025 Laureate · K-12 Education
Rapelang Rabana & Joe Wolf
Co-CEOs, Imagine Worldwide
Citation
Recipient of the 2025 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education — K-12 Education.
Biography
As co-CEOs of Imagine Worldwide, Rapelang Rabana and Joe Wolf are tackling the global foundational learning crisis with self-guided, tablet-based literacy and numeracy programs rigorously tested in some of the world's most under-resourced classrooms. Their evidence-based, massively scalable model is reaching children who are furthest from educational opportunity across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.
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