With 49 per cent of its school-aged children in poverty, the struggling schools of West Virginia's McDowell County are looking for creative solutions to significant challenges, including low test scores.<br /><br />Fewer coal jobs and two floods last decade has taken the county from a population of 100,000 to 20,000.<br /><br />To address the challenges facing this hard-hit, largely impoverished county, a teacher's union has teamed up with big corporate names like IBM and CISCO to create a five year plan to turn the county's schools around.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's John Terrett reports from McDowell County.
