University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education

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2018     Paying the price : college costs, financial aid and the betrayal of the American dream by Sara Goldrick-Rab
2017     The political classroom : evidence and ethics in democratic education by Diana E. Hess and Paula McAvoy
2016     The long shadow : family background, disadvantaged urban youth, and the transition to adulthood by Karl Alexander, Doris Entwisle, and Linda Olson
2015     Professional capital : transforming teaching in every school by Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan
2014     The death and life of the great American school system : how testing and choice are undermining education by Diane Ravitch
2013     Finnish lessons : what can the world learn from educational change in Finland? by Pasi Sahlberg
2012     The flat world and education : how America's commitment to equity will determine our future by Linda Darling-Hammond
2011     Not awarded
2010     What intelligence tests miss : the psychology of rational thought by Keith Stanovich
2009     Passing the torch : does higher education for the disadvantaged pay off across the generations? by Paul Attewell and David Lavin
2008     A vision for universal preschool education by Edward Zigler, Walter S. Gilliam, Stephanie M. Jones
2007     Leave no child behind : preparing today’s youth for tomorrow’s world by James Comer
2006     The wisdom of practice : essays on teaching, learning and learning to teach by Lee Shulman
2005     The arts and the creation of mind by Elliot W. Eisner
2003     Literacy in American lives by Deborah Brandt
2002     Cultivating humanity : a classical defense of reform in liberal education by Martha Nussbaum
2001     The shape of the river : long-term consequences of considering race in college and university admissions by William G. Bowen and Derek Bok
2000     Their highest potential : an African-American school community in the segregated South by Vanessa Siddle Walker
1999     Not awarded
1998     An American imperative : accelerating minority educational advancement by L. Scott Miller
1997     Possible lives : the promise of public education in America by Mike Rose
1996     Other people's words : the cycle of low literacy by Victoria Purcell-Gates
1995     Identity and inner-city youth : beyond ethnicity and gender by Shirley Brice Heath and Milbrey W. McLaughlin
1994     Schools for thought : a science of learning in the classroom by John T. Bruer
1993     Rousing minds to life : teaching, learning and schooling in social context by Roland Tharp and Ronald Gallimore
1992     In a different voice : psychological theory and women's development by Carol Gilligan
1991     Primary understanding : education in early childhood by Kieran Egan
1990     Frames of mind : the theory of multiple intelligences by Howard Gardner
1989     Awarded to Bertrand Schwartz for "innovations in social and vocational preparations for disadvantaged youth"