I've been at this business of reporting about youth and education since 1974, when National Public Radio broadcast my first effort, a hour about school finance. We stayed at it for eight years with a series called "Options in Education." In 1982, I ventured into television with a 7-part series about America's youth, "Your Children, Our Children."

I spent five wonderful years as Education Correspondent for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS and two years at The Learning Channel. Then, in 1995 we established Learning Matters, the not-for-profit corporation that produces our television and radio/web programs and directs our effort to train youth to create their own public service messages.

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