1989
Edward J. Meade, Jr.
Seymour B. Sarason
Donna E. Shalala
Donald E. Super
1988
Ernest L. Boyer
Lauren Resnick
1987
Gordon M. Ambach
Mary Hatwood Futrell
Philip W. Jackson
Philip H. Phenix
1986
Martha Hill
Floretta Dukes McKenzie
T. Neville Postlethwaite
Carl R. Rogers
1985
Jeanne S. Chall
I. Ignacy Goldberg
Albert Shanker
1984
Marian Wright Edelman
Eli Ginzberg Lewis
1983
Eleanor J. Gibson
John L. Goodlad
Clarence E. Pearson
Mina Rees
1982
Mary Jean Bowman
Norman Cousins
Harry N. Rivlin
1981
Alonzo A. Crim
Lucille E. Notter
B. Othanel Smith
1980
William H. Nault
Israel Scheffler