Education & Training

"Everyone wants to make a difference, but teachers may have the best claim to being able to shape the future. By helping children learn how best to make their way through life, teachers prepare the corps of time travelers who will be responsible for mankind’s fate 50 years from now. Whatever their motivation, teachers across the state of South Carolina are enjoying satisfying, well-paid careers in supportive environments."

Includes Teacher Appreciation Week collection. 

Within this Collection

180 DAYS: HARTSVILLE (Part 1 of 2
Episode 1

Video

Experience a year of a Southern town’s efforts to address the urgent demand for reform in American public schools, and watch what happens when the systems that can either fuel or diffuse that reform —...
Mr. Brown | 180 DAYS: HARTSVILLE
Episode 6

Video

Where do role models come from? What effect does it have on a young black boy to have a young male teacher who looks like him, early in his schooling? Mr. Brown connects with his students.
Rashon's Expulsion | 180 DAYS: HARTSVILLE
Episode 7

Video

After a series of disciplinary actions seems fruitless in changing Rashon's behavior, the school educators and his mother are faced with a tough reality.
Rural Education | 180 DAYS: HARTSVILLE
Episode 10

Video

Multiple jobs, late nights for parents and students, minimum wage: what effect do all these realities have on the future of rural education in America? Monay and her young sons are an example of this...
Title 1 Conference | 180 DAYS: HARTSVILLE
Episode 11

Video

Thornwell is one of the best schools in their district in Hartsville, SC, but when the educators compete with others nationwide, do they make the grade?