Lowell Milken, chairman and founder of the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET), announced today that Dr. Candice McQueen has been selected to serve as the organization’s new CEO
Lowell Milken honored Perry Township Schools in Indiana with NIET's first-ever National Award of Excellence for Educator Effectiveness, including a $50,000 cash prize.
Student Start-Up for Carbon-Capture Tech Wins Big in $100,000 Business Competition.
The National Institute for Excellence in Teaching's top honor, The TAP Founder's Award, created by Lowell Milken, recognizes West Goshen's efforts to advance educator effectiveness and student learning.
The TAP Founder's Award is funded by the Lowell Milken Family Foundation, and the prize is to be used toward efforts to improve instruction and academic achievement.
Lowell Milken surprised English Department chair and AVID instructor Alexis King with the first Milken Educator Award of the 2017-2018 season.
Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes' 2017 Discovery Award Winners Announced
The Lowell Milken Family Foundation has donated an additional $2 million to the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography.
Team Mechanodontics takes home top prize at Lowell Milken Institute-Sandler Prize for New Entrepreneurs final competition.
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music has received a $1.5 million gift from the Lowell Milken Family Foundation to establish the Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music.
The Education Commission of the States has given Lowell Milken this years's James Bryant Conant Award, one of education’s most prestigious honors.
The TAP Founder's award, created by Lowell Milken, recognizes Carver Primary School's efforts to advance educator effectiveness and student learning
Funded by the Lowell Milken Family Foundation, the TAP Founder’s Award Finalists for this year's $50,000 award...
February 16th, 2017 - This week Lowell Milken traveled to Rim Rock Elementary in Fruita, Colorado, and Rogers Ranch School in Laveen, Arizona, where he honored exceptional educators in front of their students and colleagues in surprise assemblies.
The Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography announces the Ruth Sackner Award for Typography and Language.
The National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) has received a $49 million, five-year federal Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grant.
The Lowell Milken Institute Sandler Prize for New Entrepreneurs was awards to pasCARE, an innovative medical device startup.
Lowell Milken accepted an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Chapman University on Saturday, May 23, during commencement ceremonies at the George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics.
The National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) today announced six finalists for the prestigious TAP Founder's Award.
Pecan Grove Primary School in Ascension Parish, Louisiana, Receives $50,000 TAP Founder's Award from Lowell Milken.
The new Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography established to reinforce the value of letterform knowledge in contemporary visual culture.
Lowell Milken Center for Unsung Heroes moves ahead with plans to construct a new 6,000 square foot exhibit hall.
The Lowell Milken Family Foundation and the Richard and Ellen Sandler Family Foundation announce the creation of the Lowell Milken Institute-Sandler Prize
Carter High School in Knox County Schools, Tennessee, received the 2014 Lowell Milken TAP Founder’s Award at this year’s National TAP Conference.
November 20th, 2013 - At Pioneer Middle School, teacher Jennifer Smith was surprised with a $25,000 Milken Educator Award.
On November 12, 2013, Colorado Commissioner of Education Robert Hammond joined Milken Family Foundation Chairman and Co-founder Lowell Milken at Bear Creek High School for a very special surprise assembly.
Today’s afternoon school assembly was anything but ordinary when Milken Family Foundation Chairman and Co-Founder
Prince George High School teacher and students receive $10,000 grand prize from the Lowell Milken Center for “We Are Newspapermen: The Man Who Refused to Run.”
The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET), in partnership with Texas Tech University and Arizona State University, two multimillion dollar Supporting Effective Educators Development (SEED) grants.
Joel A. Feuer, a partner at Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP since 1989, has been named Executive Director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy.
The National Institute for Excellence in Teaching (NIET) today surprised two districts and six schools with recognition awards for their commitment to TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement.
Prestigious honor created by Lowell Milken recognizes North DeSoto middle school for distinction in TAP system implementation.
The Lowell Milken Center of Fort Scott, Kansas has awarded the first 2013 Lowell Milken Center Fellowship to Marzanna Pogorzelska of Kedzierzyn-Kozle, Poland.
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts praises the efforts of the Lowell Milken Center.
The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) and the Milken Family Foundation have announced the winners of the 2012 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition.
The graduate school and the English department of Pittsburgh State University has honored Lowell Milken Center writing specialist Ashley Cook with an excellence in teaching award. The award is given to exceptional graduate teaching assistants and is based on student evaluations and supervisor recommendations.
Professor at Vanderbilt University Law School and formerly a senior transactional partner and now "of counsel" in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Andrew M. Kaufman has been appointed executive director of the Lowell Milken Institute.
Two surprise TAP Recognition Awards were presented to honor organizations and schools for their commitment to TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement. The TAP Award of Distinction honors organizations.
Leaders from West Goshen Elementary School in Goshen, Indiana, were surprised with the TAP School of Promise Award, which comes with a financial prize of $5,000. The award honors a school for demonstrated efforts while in the early stages of implementing TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement.
Leaders from Aikin Elementary School in New Caney, Texas, were surprised with the TAP School of Promise Award, which comes with a financial prize of $5,000. The award honors a school for demonstrated efforts while in the early stages of implementing TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement.
Leaders from Carter Middle School in Knox County Schools, Tennessee, were surprised with the TAP School of Promise Award, which comes with a financial prize of $5,000. The award honors a school for demonstrated efforts while in the early stages of implementing TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement.
Leaders from Judkins Middle School in Pismo Beach, California, were surprised with the TAP School of Promise Award, which comes with a financial prize of $5,000. The award honors a school for demonstrated efforts while in the early stages of implementing TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement.
Leaders of the Lincoln Consolidated School District in Arkansas were surprised with the TAP Award of Distinction, which honors an organization for its dedication and commitment to TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement.
Leaders of the Laurens County School District 56 in South Carolina were surprised with the TAP Award of Distinction, which honors an organization for its dedication and commitment to TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement.
Lancaster Independent School District, located southeast of Dallas, Texas, were surprised with the TAP Award of Distinction, which honors an organization for its dedication and commitment to TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement.
DeSotot Parish School System is one of four organizations in the U.S. to receive surprise recognition for commitment to TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement
Lowell Milken, founder of TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement, today surprised leaders from Whale Branch Middle School in Beaufort County, South Carolina, with the prestigious TAP Founder's Award—which includes a $50,000 prize—before more than 1,000 educators and policy leaders at the 12th National TAP Conference: Building a System of Teacher Leaders.
The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) recently announced the 2012 Lowell Milken Young Investigator Award given to Terence Friedlander.
The Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law is now accepting applications for the Lowell Milken Institute Law Teaching Fellowship.
Schools across the nation will soon be visited by the Milken Family Foundation, which will present exemplary teachers with the surprise of a lifetime when they are honored with a $25,000 Milken Educator Award, one of education’s most prestigious and lucrative recognitions.
The gift, the largest in the school's history, establishes the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy and serves as the capstone of the school's $100 million endowment campaign.
Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education (KDP), announces its selection of the Milken Family Foundation (MFF) as the first recipient of its International Award for Excellence in Education. The Foundation is being recognized for its sustained commitment to honoring and supporting our nation’s educators.
Called the ‘Oscars of Teaching,’ the Milken Educator Awards is the oldest teacher recognition program of its kind in the Nation, and has given $68 million in awards.
2010-19 Missouri Milken Educator Therese Shain Shares Big News
Angie Beavin wins Milken Educator Award in Kentucky
Erica Stephens Accepting 2018 Tenneesee Milken Educator Award
Oklahoma Kindergarten Teacher Hailey Couch Wins 2018 Milken Award
Kansas 2018 Milken Educator Award Recipient Linda Dishman
West Goshen Elementary School Named 2018 TAP Founder's Award Recipient
Teacher Theresa Cross Surprised with Milken Educator Award
Principal Debreon Davis Wins Milken Educator Award
Katherine Watkins Surprised with Milken Educator Award
Knoxville Teacher Paula Franklin Receives Milken Educator Award
Lisa Rodgers Announced as this year's Colorado Milken Educator Award Recipient
Lowell Milken's James Bryant Conant Award Acceptance Speech
Lowell Milken Congratulates 2015 Milken Educator John Lary
Lowell Milken Speaks at 2015 Chapman University Commencement
Lowell Milken with Students at Friendly House Academia del Pueblo Elementary Charter School
Lowell Milken Keynote Address at 2017 TAP Conference
Felicia Casto wins Milken Educator Award at Rim Rock Elementary
Lowell Milken Speaks with Students at East End Prep in Nashville, TN
Ryan James Presented with 2017 Milken Educator Award in Richmond, Virginia
Lowell Milken, Tom Torlakson and Wayne Jospeh at 2017 Milken Educator Award Presentation
Lowell Milken Accepts 2017 James Bryant Conant Award
Media Interviews at Devon Willis-Jones Milken Educator Awards Assembly