Learning Matters, an independent, non-profit production company focused on education, produces reports for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer as well as documentaries for PBS. Veteran correspondent John Merrow founded Learning Matters in 1995 after an extensive career as a teacher and broadcaster with NPR and PBS.

Our work has taken us everywhere–from community colleges in Illinois and California to kindergarten classrooms in New Orleans; from the front lines of teacher protests to policy debates on Capitol Hill; from state-of-the-art schools with climbing walls and wireless laptops to dilapidated classrooms with 30-year-old textbooks; and from state-supported pre-schools in France to basement ‘mom-and-pop’ operations where toddlers do nothing but watch TV all day.

We believe that, while problems and injustices are common, solutions do exist. Our television programs, podcasts and publications spotlight problems and celebrate their solutions.

Visit us on the web at www.learningmatters.tv.