2000
Marcie Fraser
Middletown, CT

1999
Dr. James Caradonio
Deputy Superintendent
Worcester, MA. Public Schools

1998
Richard Aieta
Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School
South Hamilton, MA

Susan Szachowitz
 

1997
Will Fitzhugh
The Concord Review
Concord, MA
http://www.tcr.org

"Academic freedom means protecting scholarly work from outside interference, but today, while we have largely achieved freedom from external dangers, genuine academic work itself is being undermined, even at the high school level, through damage being done by political correctness, deconstruction, and 'progressive' educational ideas within the academy."
--Will Fitzhugh

1996
Penny Culliton
Mascenic Regional High School
New Ipswich, NH

1995
Al Ferreira
Project 10 East
Leominster, MA

1994
Betty A. Reardon
Peace Education Program
New York, NY

1993
Edmund T. Grogan
Atlantic Middle School
Quincy, MA

1992
Dr. William Fernekes
Hunterdon Central Regional High School
Flemington, NJ

1991
Paul Titon
Cranston West High School
Cranston, RI

1990
Bruce Rettman
Algonquin Regional High School

1989
Phyllis R. Scattergood
Massachusetts State Department of Education
Quincy, MA

1988
Diane P. Shugert
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, CT

Dr. William Jay Jacobs
Darien Public Schools
Darien, CT

1987
Marylou Anderson
Massachusetts State Department of Education
Quincy, MA

1986
Gordon Lind
Needham High School
Needham, MA

1985
Edward M. Colley
Whitman-Hanson High School
Whitman, MA

1984
Leo Coleman
Adams Street School
Worcester, MA

1983
Elaine Temkin
Classical High School
Providence, RI

1982
Arthur Tordoff
South Portland High School
Portland, ME