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| '''Lowell Milken''' is an education philanthropist and was named one of America’s most generous philanthropists by ''Worth'' magazine and is a product of California’s public schools. He has credited his fifth and sixth grade teachers—Lou Fosse and Elliott Sutton—at Hesby Street Elementary School in Encino, CA with inspiring the Milken Educator Awards program, which he founded in 1985 to recognize outstanding teachers. In 1999, Lowell introduced TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement<ref> |
'''Lowell Milken''' is an education philanthropist and was named one of America’s most generous philanthropists by ''Worth'' magazine and is a product of California’s public schools. He has credited his fifth and sixth grade teachers—Lou Fosse and Elliott Sutton—at Hesby Street Elementary School in Encino, CA with inspiring the Milken Educator Awards program, which he founded in 1985 to recognize outstanding teachers. In 1999, Lowell introduced TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement<ref>http://www.tapsystem.org</ref>, now operated by the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching which he founded in 2005. He also played a key role in the development of HighTech-Los Angeles and Milken Community High School in Los Angeles. | ||
| The new Lowell Milken Center<ref>http://www.lowellmilkencenter.org</ref>, founded in 2007 in partnership with Milken Educator Norman Conard (KS '92), focuses on galvanizing a movement for teaching respect and understanding among all people regardless of race, religion or creed. The LM Center promotes this mission through educational projects that feature unsung heroes as role models to "repair the world." | The new Lowell Milken Center<ref>http://www.lowellmilkencenter.org</ref>, founded in 2007 in partnership with Milken Educator Norman Conard (KS '92), focuses on galvanizing a movement for teaching respect and understanding among all people regardless of race, religion or creed. The LM Center promotes this mission through educational projects that feature unsung heroes as role models to "repair the world." | ||
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Lowell Milken is an education philanthropist and was named one of America’s most generous philanthropists by Worth magazine and is a product of California’s public schools. He has credited his fifth and sixth grade teachers—Lou Fosse and Elliott Sutton—at Hesby Street Elementary School in Encino, CA with inspiring the Milken Educator Awards program, which he founded in 1985 to recognize outstanding teachers. In 1999, Lowell introduced TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement, now operated by the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching which he founded in 2005. He also played a key role in the development of HighTech-Los Angeles and Milken Community High School in Los Angeles.
The new Lowell Milken Center, founded in 2007 in partnership with Milken Educator Norman Conard (KS '92), focuses on galvanizing a movement for teaching respect and understanding among all people regardless of race, religion or creed. The LM Center promotes this mission through educational projects that feature unsung heroes as role models to "repair the world."
Lowell Milken graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at Berkeley, where he received the School of Business Administration's Most Outstanding Student Award. He earned a law degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, with distinctions of Order of the Coif and UCLA Law Review.
Recognition for Lowell's achievements in education has included awards from organizations such as the National Association of State Boards of Education, the Horace Mann League, the National Association of Secondary School Principals, Jewish Theological Seminary, and most recently, UCLA School of Law’s 2009 Alumnus of the Year Award for Public and Community Service, and a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
“The Milken Family Foundation’s visionary leadership addresses crucial challenges like education that confront all racial, ethnic, cultural and economic segments of our uniquely diversified city, state and nation.” -John W. Mack, Past President, Los Angeles Urban League