180 Days: Hartsville

When it comes to the town of Hartsville, South Carolina, what you see depends on whom you ask. Together, these adults are hoping that Hartsville’s public schools can become a model for all schools across the country – not just by preventing kids from dropping out, but by inspiring them to reach for the highest levels of success. “I realized we may have a situation here that is small enough that we might be able to control it, and that if we could figure out a way to get it right, then others might try to replicate it,” Deloach explained one summer day while giving Hartsville’s new superintendent of schools, Edward Ingram, a tour of the his company’s manufacturing plant. “Folks don’t realize that this is where it all begins.” (Source: PBS)