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Margot Stern Strom, the executive director and president of the Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation in Brookline, Mass., will receive this year's Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievements in Education.

She has been honored for her dedication to helping educators and community members bring a "moral sense" to the classroom, according to the New York City-based Dana Foundation, which sponsors the annual award.

Ms. Strom co-founded the Facing History and Ourselves program in 1976 as a professional-development program that encourages educators to use lessons of the past. In particular, the program helps educators link the history of the events that led to the Holocaust...