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The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation, established by Harold W. McGraw, Jr., is a not-for-profit private foundation whose primary mission is focused on education, youth services, community health, and medical research.
- PreK-12 Education
- Higher Education
- Learning Science Research
Douglas H. & Lynn S. Fuchs of Vanderbilt University are the 2021 McGraw Prize winners in the PreK-12 Education category. They both graduated from Penn GSE in 1973 with master’s degrees in elementary education. In their more than three decades of innovation, research, and advocacy, the Fuchs have played a key role in improving the educational trajec...
Engineer, entrepreneur, and researcher Richard G. Baraniuk from Rice University, the 2021 McGraw Prize winner in Higher Education, has pushed the boundaries on personalized learning and revolutionized college publishing by putting free and open-source books in the hands of tens of millions of students and faculty worldwide through OpenStax. In thin...
Carol D. Lee from Northwestern University, the 2021 McGraw Prize winner in Learning Science Research, has had a profound and lasting impact on the learning sciences by introducing transformative perspectives to the field. In her five-decade career, Lee adopted a broad ecological focus, closely attending to the role of culture in learning and litera...
The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation was started in 2010 by Suzanne, Terry and Bob McGraw to honor their father, the former chairman and chief executive of McGraw-Hill, the publishing and financial services company that owned BusinessWeek magazine for 80 years. Mr. McGraw died in 2010.
Mar 25, 2010 · Harold W. McGraw Jr., who as leader of McGraw-Hill, his family’s publishing business, helped build it into a billion-dollar enterprise in the 1970s and ’80s, died on Wednesday at his home in...
Our new Center for Business Journalism is named for one of the great gentleman publishers of the 20th century: Harold W. McGraw, Jr., the former CEO and chairman of McGraw-Hill, who died in 2010 at age 92.
Harold Whittlesey McGraw Jr. (January 10, 1918 – March 24, 2010) was chief executive officer (CEO) of Mcgraw-Hill from 1975 to 1983. He was the eldest of two sons born to Harold Sr. & Louise (née Higgins) McGraw and grandson of McGraw-Hill’s co-founder James H. McGraw and his wife, Mildred.
Dec 4, 2023 · Today, we express our deepest gratitude to The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Family Foundation, Inc., whose unwavering support has been instrumental in Carver's mission to create opportunities and remove barriers for children and families in need.
