Topic: Education & Schools

Meet Jewish anthropologist Melville Herskovits, who exploded myths about African Americans.

"Professor Herskovits seemed to think sometimes that he owned Africa."

"Herskovits learns that the place to look for behavior is in cultural practice, not biology."

"The idea of race as this organizing way of thinking about people is still extremely pervasive."

Schoolchildren in China take part in an experiment in democracy by running for class monitor.

Follow 4 blind teenagers during one dynamic year at the Texas School for the Blind.

"I felt just stupid because I couldn’t just sit there pretending I could do things all by myself...."

"Maybe there’s something out there that God don’t want him to see, or wants him to see with his heart."

"I went in and I had my last surgery. I went to sleep with sight, and I woke up and it was like I couldn’t see."

Former drug addict Nguyen Van Hung now looks after the street children with AIDS in Vietnam.

Take a rare look into one of China's most treasured commodities — acrobats.

Arab and Jewish children learn together as their school attempts a binational and bilingual program.

Follow members of the Zionist elite from birth to the crisis that weakened the kibbutz movement.

Principal Edward Tom envisions his school as a safe haven where kids can focus on their education.

“People are going to expect excuses from us. And we can’t give the world excuses.”

“I want to be able to help my mother out and give her money. So of course I’m going to college.”

“I want to be able to help my mother out and give her money. So of course I’m going to college.”

Cuban boys learn to box and to fight for the revolution in Havana.

Harvard Professor Vincent Brown discusses the irony that a white man came to define black culture.

A filmmaker explains how she learned about life, death, and love from a former drug addict.

Visit a school where American kids are taught social studies, math, and science entirely in Chinese.

Four children raise questions about what it means to be American in the 21st century.

It takes a true calling to make faith a way of life.

Jeneen Robinson describes the life experiences that led her to become an AME minister.

As a hospital chaplain, Steven Gamez tries to console a family after a devastating loss.

A rabbinical student explains his balanced devotion to faith and his girlfriend.

What's your calling? What do you do to make your world a better place?

Bilal brings Islam's message of a new, better life to inmates as a Prison chaplain.

Yerachmiel overcomes his nerves to perform his first wedding.

Filmmaker Rebecca Ferris describes what compelled her to tell the story of Jason Miller.