The Milken Family Foundation is a private foundation established by

Lowell Milken 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 T ...

and

Michael Milken Michael Robert Milken (born July 4, 1946) is an American financier. He is known for his role in the development of the market for high-yield bonds ("junk bonds"), and his conviction and sentence following a guilty plea on felony charges for vio ...

in 1982. Lowell Milken serves as chairman and co-founder of the foundation.

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The foundation is focused primarily on supporting education and medical research. Among the foundation's initiatives are: *The

Milken Educator Awards The Milken Educator Awards is an educator recognition program in the United States that provides unrestricted grants of $25,000 cash to teachers deemed successful, in surprise ceremonies. Created in 1985 by education reformer and philanthropist Lo ...

, a teacher recognition program awarding $25,000 to individual educators for teaching excellence; *TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement, a comprehensive school reform incorporating career advancement, collaborative professional development, teacher accountability and performance-based compensation. T The

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released "Aligned by Design," a report by education researcher Craig Jerald that elaborated on this concept to specifically show how TAP's elements work together. South Carolina TAP was featured in ''TIME Magazine's'' February 2008 cover story. In 2006, ''BusinessWeek'' ranked TAP on its Top 10 List of Best Practices. The system was profiled in ''Education Week''.TAP: More Than Performance Pay
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Milken Archive of Jewish Music 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 It contains roughly 700 recorded musical works, 800 hours of oral histories, 50,000 photographs and historical documents, an ext ...

, 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.' Howard Cohen, Chancellor of Purdue University/Calumet, said about the LM Center: "History is not history until it is written or told. This is what you are doing so well with your unsung hero projects." *Milken-

University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education The University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, commonly known as Penn GSE, is an Ivy League top-ranked educational research school in the United States. Formally established as a school at the University of Pennsylvania in 1914, Penn ...

Education Business Plan Competition - Education entrepreneurs from early-stage start-ups compete in the competition, which features seven prizes totaling $145,000 in funding. In addition to the prizes, all Competition finalists are invited to participate in the Education Design Studio Fund (EDSF), a fund initiative created in collaboration with Penn GSE.

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* * {{Authority control Educational foundations in the United States 1982 establishments in California Organizations established in 1982 Charities based in California Michael Milken

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