John Merrow Biography
John Merrow is an American radio broadcaster who has been covering educational issues since the 1970s. He was the education correspondent for the PBS News Hour.
John Merrow Age
Merrow was born on 14 June 1941, in Summit, New Jersey, United States of America. He is 82 82 years old as of June 2023.
John Merrow Education
Merrow got an A.B. from Dartmouth College in 1964 and an M.A. in American Studies from Indiana University in 1968. Merrow earned a PhD in education and social policy from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1973.
John Merrow Wife
John is happily married to his wife Joan Lonergan.
John Merrow PBS News Hour
He started his career as an education reporter in 1974, when National Public Radio broadcast his first investigative reporting on the country’s schools. Merrow’s program “Options In Education,” which ran for eight years, soon gained a devoted following. The weekly radio broadcast won the coveted George Polk Award in 1981. He was the education correspondent for PBS NewsHour. These programs, sometimes titled “The Merrow Report,” were a cornerstone of public broadcasting’s education coverage. He was also the executive producer, host, and president of Learning Matters, Inc., a non-profit business that produces television, radio, and online segments and documentaries with a primary focus on education.
Merrow went on to create a seven-part PBS television series called “Your Children, Our Children.” This program received an Emmy nomination in 1984. He previously worked as an education correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour for five years (1985-1990), then briefly for The Learning Channel before returning to the PBS program in 1993. Merrow founded Learning Matters in 1995, producing his NewsHour reports as well as other media products. In 1998, he founded Listen Up!, a project that teaches disadvantaged adolescents and their teachers about broadcast production skills and procedures.
John Merrow Awards
In 2001, he won the George Foster Peabody Award for “School Sleuth: The Case of an Excellent School,”[9] and again in 2006 for Listen Up’s production, “Beyond Borders.” Learning Matters’ programs got Emmy nominations in both 2005 and 2007. Merrow received the prestigious Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Education Prize in 2012. Merrow retired in 2015, and Education Week bought Learning Matters.
John Merrow Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
John Merrow Books- Author
Choosing Excellence 2001
Below C Level (2010)
The Influence of Teachers (2011).
Declining by Degrees PBS Home Video, (2005)