Professor Eric Hanushek and Dr Rukmini Banerji awarded the 2021 Yidan Prize – the world's highest education accolad
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Professor Eric A. Hanushek and Dr Rukmini Banerji have been awarded the 2021
Yidan Prize, the world's highest education accolade, in recognition of their
ground-breaking work addressing a crucial piece of the education puzzle:
improving quality of education and outcomes for learners at scale.
Following a rigorous judging process, conducted by an independent judging
committee of recognized education experts, Professor Eric A. Hanushek and Dr
Rukmini Banerji were selected as the recipients of the 2021 Yidan Prize for
Education Research and Yidan Prize for Education Development. They will join
nine laureates who have been awarded the Yidan Prize since its inception in
2016, established by the Yidan Prize Foundation - a global philanthropic
education foundation that inspires progress and change in education.
Supporting 2021 laureates to improve teaching quality and learning outcomes
Professor Eric Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
of Stanford University, is awarded the 2021 Yidan Prize for Education Research.
His work focuses on education outcomes and the importance of teaching quality
and has transformed both research and policy internationally. His work helped
shape the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (ensure inclusive and
equitable quality education) by reframing targets for learning outcomes and has
shown that it's how much students learn – and not how many years they spend in
school – that boosts economies.
With the Yidan Prize funding, Professor Hanushek is planning a research fellow
program in Africa, supporting analytical capacity to shape education.
Dr Rukmini Banerji, Chief Executive Officer of the Pratham Education
Foundation(https://www.pratham.org/), is awarded the 2021 Yidan Prize for
Education Development for her work in improving learning outcomes. The Annual
Status of Education Report (ASER) assessment approach, pioneered by Dr Banerji
and her team, revealed literacy and numeracy gaps among children who had
already spent several years at school. To close these gaps, her team's
"Teaching at the Right Level" (TaRL) program works with schools and local
communities to provide basic reading and arithmetic skills, ensuring no
children are left behind. This systematic, replicable model reaches millions of
children in India annually and is spreading around the globe.
With the support of the Yidan Prize, Dr Banerji plans to strengthen and expand
Pratham's work with young children so that strong foundations can be built
early in a child's life. She believes this will contribute significantly
towards the goal of seeing "every child in school and learning well".
Each laureate will be awarded HK$30 million (approximately US$3.9 million),
half of which is a project fund – enabling a series of innovative and
progressive education projects to scale up and support millions of learners
globally. Together, the laureates' projects are helping make the world a better
place through education.
All laureates(https://bit.ly/39u315L) will join the Yidan Council of
Luminaries(https://bit.ly/39sk602) members to work collaboratively and speak
with a collective voice - to shed light on the importance of restoring and
rethinking education with innovative ideas.
2022 Yidan Prize nominations open on 19 October
Nominations for the 2022 Yidan Prize will be open from 19 October 2021 until
March 2022.
About the Yidan Prize Foundation and Yidan Prize
The Yidan Prize Foundation is a global philanthropic foundation, with a mission
of creating a better world through education. Through its network of
innovators, the foundation supports ideas and practices in
education—specifically, ones with the power to positively change lives and
society.
The Yidan Prize is an inclusive education accolade that recognizes individuals
or teams who have contributed significantly to education.
SOURCE: Yidan Prize Foundation
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