Articles, Interviews and Commentary
Learning Matters President, John Merrow, frequently writes for national publications.
For press inquiries, contact Amanda Morales, amorales@merrow.org or call 212.725.7000.
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2008
The Influence of Teachers: On Rewriting, Character Education, and the Future of America
By John Merrow
Independent School Magazine
January 2008
2007
Learning Without Loopholes
With NCLB reauthorization on hold, we should move toward common standards—and fewer excuses.
By John Merrow
Education Week
December 5, 2007
New American revolution fought over national education standards
By John Merrow
San Jose Mercury News
October 17, 2007
Up Against the Wall (.pdf)
by John Merrow
from Education Week
June 13, 2007
Dream Catchers
by John Merrow
from The New York Times, Education Supplement
April 22, 2007
Nurse for America?
by John Merrow
from The Washington Post
April 21, 2007
Our Children and Schools Deserve First-Rate Evaluations (.pdf)
by John Merrow
from San Jose Mercury News
March 12, 2007
A 'Surge' Strategy for No Child Left Behind? (.pdf)
by John Merrow
from Education Week
February 14, 2007
How Well Has NCLB Worked? How Do We Get the Revisions We Want? (.pdf)
by Anne C. Lewis
from Phi Delta Kappan
January 2007
2006
Failing the Test
by John Merrow
from Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
Nov/Dec 2006
Learning Matters Receives $2,283,000 3-Year Grant from The Annenberg Foundation (.pdf)
Press Release
October 04, 2006
W.K.
Kellogg Foundation Awards 3-Year Grant to Learning Matters Totaling
$397,000 (.pdf)
Press Release (.pdf)
October 04, 2006
Learning Matters Awarded $100,000 by Carnegie Corporation of New York (.pdf)
Press Release
October 04, 2006
Learning Matters, On Behalf of Listen Up! Project, Receives Adobe Youth Voices Grant of $800,500 (.pdf)
Press Release
October 04, 2006
My
College Education
by John Merrow
from Change, The Magazine of Higher
Learning
May/June 2006
2005
Where
are the voices of college presidents?
by John Merrow
from The Christian Science Monitor
December 21, 2005
Educating
California: A school struggles against
the odds in Los Angeles
by John Merrow
from Sacramento Bee
March 7, 2005
Unlearning
Bad Science
by
John Merrow
from Education Week
February 23, 2005
2004
Safety
and Excellence
by John Merrow
from Educational Horizons
Volume 83 Number 1, Fall 2004
Can
D.C.'s Search Make the Grade?
by John Merrow
from
The Washington Post
Sunday,
August 8, 2004; Page B01
Grading
Expectations
by John Merrow
from Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
March/April, 2004
Get Rid of Retention And Social Promotion
by John Merrow
from Education Week
March 31, 2004
California schools: Decades
of decline: 'First to worst' for California schools
by W. Norton Grubb
from Sacramento Bee
March 14, 2004
Meeting
Superman
by John Merrow
from Phi Delta Kappan,
February, 2004
Journalist
Examines Decline of Schools
by
Nicole C. Wong
from The Mercury News,
February 8, 2004
What Shape Are Our Schools
In? 'First to Worst' a call
to fund quality education
by Marshall Smith
from The San Francisco Chronicle,
February 4, 2004
Educational Foresight
by
John Merrow
from The Mercury News,
February 4, 2004
No More Tinkering: Remake the
Schools
by
John Merrow
from Los Angeles Times,
February 4, 2004
Oops! One More Time
from The New York Times,
Jnuary 18, 2004
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