Mar 27, 2013

Watch on WTVI PBS Charlotte On the morning of February 15, 2013, a 7,000-ton asteroid crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere, exploded and fell to earth across a wide swath near the Ural Mountains. The Siberian meteor was captured by digital dashboard cameras, a common fixture in Russian cars and trucks. Within days, armed with this [...]

Mar 26, 2013

Watch on WTVI PBS Charlotte • March 28 at 8pm Forty years ago, Dr. Bob Hart created a nature preserve on his Catawba County land. A friend suggested that an old log cabin down the road would look nice on the lake, and would also save a piece of history. This log cabin was the [...]

Mar 22, 2013

  Watch Sunday, March 24th at 7pm   To mark the 25th anniversary year of The Phantom of the Opera, Andrew Lloyd Webber and producer Cameron Mackintosh presented the musical in a lavish, fully staged production in the sumptuous Victorian splendor of the Royal Albert Hall. Audiences were invited to join the celebration, which was broadcast to [...]

Mar 22, 2013

180 Days:  A Year Inside an American High School follows teachers, students, administrators,  and parents of the first graduating class of Washington Metropolitan High School (aka DC Met), a public school in the District of Columbia where only 7 percent of the student body is proficient in math and 19 percent in reading.  The two [...]

Mar 20, 2013

Watch Part 1 – Monday, March 25 at 9pm. Watch Part 2 Tuesday, March 26th at 9pm. 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 [...]