The Grawemeyer Award in Education is intended to stimulate the dissemination, public scrutiny and implementation of ideas that have potential to bring about significant improvement in educational practice and advances in educational attainment. The award was created not only to reward the individuals responsible, but also to draw attention to their ideas, proposals or achievements. The award is designed to recognize a specific recent idea/study rather than a lifetime of accomplishment. View list of previous winners and learn more about the award.
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Study of how to better U.S. high schools wins education award
How can American high schools move away from rote learning and testing and help students become critical thinkers ready to take on the challenges of modern life?
Educators Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine, who spent six years researching the issue at 30 U.S. high schools, have co-won the 2020 Grawemeyer Award in Education for ideas set forth in their book, “In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the . . .
The Grawemeyer Award in Education is accompanied by a cash prize of $100,000.
Ideas eligible for nomination may have an individual author or authors. The competition does not limit the format in which the idea or achievement appears. Consideration will be given to printed books, articles appearing in scholarly journals, technological advances, software, research reports, conference presentations, or other widely and publicly disseminated forms. Consistent with the intent of H. Charles Grawemeyer, the award is not given posthumously. Persons who received the Grawemeyer Award in a previous year are not eligible to receive the award a second time.
Please note that edited volumes as well as textbooks are not eligible for this award.
Nominations will be judged on the basis of originality, creativity, feasibility, accessibility, and scope of potential applicability.
The University invites nominations from throughout the world by professional educators, educational institutions and organizations, and editors and publishers of journals, books and software. Self-nominations will not be considered.
2021 Grawemeyer Award Nomination Form [PDF]
To nominate a work, the following must be submitted:
Upon receipt of a letter of nomination, the nominee(s) will be notified of nomination and sent a nominee form, which explains the award conditions. Nominator must include current information for each author/contributor so nominee(s) may be notified. All materials submitted will become property of the University of Louisville. Each nominee then must submit the following supporting materials:
To be considered for the 2021 award, the nomination form and letter must be received by April 15, 2020, and all supporting materials for the nomination (including the signed nominee form, eight copies of the work and one copy of the nominee's curriculum vita or resume) must reach the University of Louisville by May 15, 2020.
Initial screening is conducted by a committee of College of Education and Human Development faculty who select three finalists for the Grawemeyer Award in Education. External reviewers then evaluate the finalists.
The final selection committee is comprised of the President of the University of Louisville or designee, the Dean of the College of Education and Human Development, and three members of the community with some involvement in the educational enterprise. The committee recommends the award winner to the President who forwards the recommendation to the Board of Trustees of the University. The University of Louisville Board of Trustees approves the final recommendation.
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Jeff Valentine
Director of the Grawemeyer Award in Education
Grawemeyer Award in Education
University of Louisville
1905 South 1st Street
Louisville, KY 40208
Jeff Valentine
Director of the Grawemeyer Award in Education
Grawemeyer Award in Education
Phone: 502.852.3830
E-mail: Jeff.valentine @ louisville.edu