School finance is one of the most vigorously debated issues in education reform. One of the key questions: should the federal government pump more money into America's schools?

Meet some of the characters and schools featured in the program.

Why we chose Ohio to best represent the American educational experience.

Education Platforms for presidential candidates Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.

25 years ago, the report, Nation at Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform, came to a disturbing conclusion: our education system was falling behind the rest of the world. How have our schools fared since these wake-up calls? Are we still a nation at risk?

Why, and how, Finnish students consistently rank so high on international tests.

The nuts and bolts of school finance.

About the law, its background, impact and its future.

A look inside one of the country's most ambitious educational experiments.

A message from Executive Producer of "Where We Stand."

Profile of Foxfire Center for Student Success. Kids come from Appalachian rural poverty and urban poverty districts near Columbus. The school has made a dramatic turn around in the past two years.

Call it rural blight, or simply the impact of globalization - job opportunities are fast disappearing in rural Ohio. Once home to heavy industry, agriculture and mining, the Appalachian area of the state has seen many of these sectors shut down or move offshore in recent years. And where there are opportunities, an education beyond high school is often required. That's a challenge in a region with a high school completion rate of just 68 percent.