Background
Merrow, John was born on June 14, 1941 in Newark. Son of John Griswold and Margaret (Lord) Merrow.
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How do you evaluate a school? Today parents and teachers lean on standardized test scores - along with image, rumor, and reputation - to make vital decisions. However, a single number is inevitably misleading. Author John Merrow, host of PBS's premier documentary series on youth and learning, The Merrow Report, delves into the problem of school evaluation. He shows that there are really only three kinds of schools: bad, good enough, and excellent. Good enough is the kind of school that most people settle for, schools people want to believe are okay. Each of the chapters in Choosing Excellence explores some aspect of schooling: safety, academics, values, technology, and so on. He spotlights excellent practices and strategies, concluding each chapter with a list of evidence for visitors to look for.
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Merrow, John was born on June 14, 1941 in Newark. Son of John Griswold and Margaret (Lord) Merrow.
AB, Dartmouth College, 1964. Master of Arts, Indiana University, 1968. Doctor of Education, Harvard University, 1973.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Stockton State University, 1992.
He serves as the education correspondent for the Public Broadcasting Service NewsHour program These features - often under the umbrella heading of "The Merrow Report" - have become a staple of education reporting on public broadcasting. Additionally, he is currently the executive producer, host and president of Learning Matters, Incorporated., a not-for-profit corporation that creates television, radio and online segments and documentaries, focusing primarily on education.
Merrow earned an Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College in 1964, and received an Master of Arts degree in American Studies from Indiana University in 1968.
He began his career as an education reporter in 1974, when National Public Radio began airing his first investigative reports on the nation"s schools. Merrow quickly developed a devoted following with his program "Options In Education," which aired for eight years.
The weekly radio broadcast received the prestigious George Polk Award in 1981. He also served as education correspondent for the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour for five years (1985–1990), and briefly occupied a similar position with The Learning Channel before returning to the Public Broadcasting Service program in 1993.
In 1995, Merrow established Learning Matters, which produces his NewsHour reports, along with other media content.
In 1998, he created Listen Up! - a project which trains disadvantaged youth and their teachers in broadcast production skills and techniques. In 2005 and 2007, Learning Matters" programming received Emmy nominations. He also co-edited, with Richard Hersh, "Declining by Degrees" (2005).
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Chairman alumni county Harvard Graduate School Education, Cambridge, since 1994. Board directors Foundation for Excellent Schools, Middlebury, Connecticut, since 1995, Hechinger Institute, Columbia University, since 1996. Member Education Writers Association (board directors 1978-1984, Education Writers award 1975-1982, 94-96).
Married Elise Kelsey, December 21, 1968 (divorced September 1981). Children: Joshua, Elise, Kelsey. Married Patricia McGuire Teves, October 10, 1987.