Ron Berler Biography

Ron Berler has spent a large chunk of his life either in school or thinking about school. When your mother is a lifelong teacher (fourth grade) the issue is hard to avoid. His first paid writing was about school -- while a high-school senior. He wrote a weekly news-about-campus column in the local Westport Conn. Town Crier for which he earned $3 a week. Not as much as Ron had pocketed from his first media-related job delivering the Bridgeport (Conn.) Post at age 11 but it was a start.
He began his current writing gig shortly before graduating Northwestern University. A professor of Ron's whose second job was music editor of the Chicago Tribune encouraged him to freelance for his paper. Ron reported on drag racing the Jackson Five and the art of panhandling among other topics and then found his niche after taking over as manager of a local Little League team a position he would hold for 20 years.
Youth issues. It was the best beat he ever had. Children -- if they trust you -- have no self-editing mechanism. They have the refreshing habit of telling you exactly what they think. He began by writing on sports matters -- a 12-year-old baseball star faced with pressure from fellow players to carry the ball club; the loneliness of a Korean child eager to assimilate at his school who had to beg his father to let him try out for the middle-school basketball team. That led to a weekly general interest youth-issues column in the Tribune -- a job that returned Ron to school. He spent two or three days a week chasing stories in Chicago-area classrooms.

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