December 18, 2008. Miami University Journalism Program Fall 2008 students partner with the Miami-Whitewater Valley Public Media (MWVPM) coalition to present The Learning Curve: How Education and the Economy Are Reshaping the Heartland, a study of the relationships between rural (Union County, Indiana) and urban (Middletown, Ohio) school systems and their respective communities. Presentation taped at Miami University Middletown Downtown on December 10, 2008.