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Greenville County promotes a learning community where achieving educational excellence is the standard from the cradle to the grave. Greenville is a vibrant, internationally recognized learning community that provides every person with the education to succeed in life.
Vision Goals
Education is a top priority for all citizens and the foundation for the community's strength.
Greenville is internationally recognized as an intellectually vibrant community for all ages.
Every student achieves his/her greatest potential regardless of gender, ethnicity, race, economic circumstances, or geography.
Greenville 's educational opportunities reflect cultural diversity and global influences.
Greenville citizens are life-long learners.

Greenville County has a variety of accessible and alternative educational programs and delivery systems to meet the diverse learning styles and needs of the population.

Teaching is one of the most highly valued professions in the Greenville community.
Greenville's education system is seamless from early childhood through college and into the workforce.
Greenville 's political, community and business and industry leaders collaborate with educational leaders in creating quality education that contributes to economic development and enhances the quality of life.
Vision Benchmarks

Implement the Greenville County School District Education Plan (Click to download.)
Maintain education alternatives.
Provide extensive lifelong learning opportunities.
Clemson is a top 20 public university.
The Upstate public colleges and universities some of the most innovative and affordable four year public college degree programs in the country.
The education system is a source of community pride.
   
 
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The "Weekly Reader" is BACK. The Education Task Force reviews important news from the Upstate dealing with education every week. Click on the links below to view articles published in Greenville about education. These summaries are unselfishly prepared every week by Judy Prince of USC Upstate. We just compiled all Weekly Readers from 2007. Download it (247 pages). To see 2006 and 2007, click here.

Graduate Greenville "Opening Doors to Success Day." In August, Greenville Forward helped recruit over 140 volunteers who went door to door at the home of students who had not returned back to school at Berea or Greenville High School. As a result of the effort, 18 students returned to school. Read more.

The Amazing Read. Sponsored by the Greenville County Library and Greenville Forward, the Amazing Read was held at the beginning of 2008 and included free book giveaways at each branch of the Greenville County Library System, author appearances, an Alzheimer's Disease panel discussion, and organized book discussion groups throughout the county. Some measureable outcomes of the program include:

  • 505 copies of The Pleasure Was Mine were given away to the public in January.
  • GCLS circulated 56 copies of The Pleasure Was Mine between January and March.
  • The Pleasure Was Mine was checked out 311 times from GCLS during the Amazing Read.
  • A total of 563 people participated in the scheduled Amazing Read events.
Links

Riley Institute Hewlett Study Results (Link to page)

Furman released a two year study of the state of education in South Carolina schools. Much of the conversation revolves about the consistency of findings between groups.