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180 Days

180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School provides an intimate portrait of this fledgling school's day-to-day stories, condensing a full school year - 180 days - into 2 two-hour episodes.

Hartsville | Hour Two

55m 10s

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 — bureaucracy, economic opportunity and fixed mindsets — interact and intersect.

Episodes

  • Hartsville | Hour Two: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Hartsville | Hour Two

    S2 E2 - 55m 10s

    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 — bureaucracy, economic opportunity and fixed mindsets — interact and intersect.

  • Hartsville | Hour One: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Hartsville | Hour One

    S2 E1 - 55m 10s

    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 — bureaucracy, economic opportunity and fixed mindsets — interact and intersect.

Extras + Features

  • 180 Days, Part 2 - Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    180 Days, Part 2 - Preview

    S1 E2 - 30s

    View the connection between the juvenile justice system and the dropout rate among teens. 3/26/2013

  • Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Preview

    S1 - 2m 17s

    This special gives space and breadth to our nation’s education reform debate by giving the audience a first-hand view of what happens in a school that meets the needs of the most challenged students in new and sometimes non-traditional ways.

  • 180 Days Extended Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    180 Days Extended Preview

    S1 - 42m 11s

    To educators, Washington Metropolitan High School (DC Met) is an alternative school with a devoted staff. To district leaders, it is a failure. To many of the school’s students, it is home – a safe haven from sometimes unsparingly difficult lives. 180 Days: A Year inside an American High School provides an intimate portrait of this fledgling school’s day-to-day stories.

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