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Lowell Jay Milken (born November 29, 1948) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and the co-founder and chairman of the Milken Family Foundation.He is also the founder of the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, TAP System for Teacher and Student Advancement as well as co-founder of Knowledge Universe, the world’s largest provider of early childhood education from 2005 until ...
Milken Archive of Jewish Music, a cultural and historic project dedicated to preserving the sacred and secular music inspired by 350 years of Jewish life in America; The Lowell Milken Center, an institution dedicated to the development of educational projects that feature unsung heroes as role models to 'repair the world.'
— A Joplin student has been named one of 11 winners of the sixth annual ArtEffect Project, an international art competition for middle and high school students hosted by the Lowell Milken Center ...
The Milken Educator Awards, created by Lowell Milken in 1987, reward excellence in the world of education by honoring top educators around the country. Each comes with an unrestricted $25,000 ...
The award was started by businessman philanthropist Lowell Milken. ... a global history teacher, being awarded the Teacher of the Year in Center Moriches just four months ago. ...
The Milken Archive of Jewish Music is a collection of material about the history of Jewish Music in the United States.It contains roughly 700 recorded musical works, 800 hours of oral histories, 50,000 photographs and historical documents, an extensive collection of program notes and essays, and thousands of hours of video footage documenting recording sessions, interviews, and live performances.
When the school became affiliated with Stephen S. Wise Temple, it was renamed Stephen S. Wise High School. After a large donation from Lowell and Michael Milken's Milken Family Foundation in 1995, the school, then reported to be the "largest non-Orthodox Jewish high school in the country", was named Milken Community High School. [2]
Created in 1985 by education reformer and philanthropist Lowell Milken [1] [2] and first presented in 1987, this initiative of the Milken Family Foundation has presented awards to over 2,900 teachers across the United States, averaging around 30-40 teachers per year. [3] Teacher Magazine nicknamed the program the "Oscars of Teaching."