John Merrow
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John Merrow is the executive producer, host and president of Learning Matters, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation that creates television, radio and online segments and documentaries focusing primarily on education. Listen Up!, a project Merrow created in 1998, trains disadvantaged youth and their teachers in production.
An education reporter since 1974-when National Public Radio aired his first investigative effort involving the nation's schools-Merrow quickly developed a devoted following with his program "Options In Education," which aired for the subsequent eight years.
Merrow would later produce a seven part series for PBS along the same lines, entitled "Your Children, Our Children."
He also served as an education correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour for five years,1985-90, and briefly occupied a similar position with The Learning Channel before returning to PBS in 1992.
His features, grouped under the title of "The Merrow Report," have become a staple of public radio and public television education reporting.
In 1995, he established Learning Matters and returned to the NewsHour to report on education. He received the George Foster Peabody Award in 2001 for "School Sleuth: The Case of an Excellent School."
