WIDE ANGLE | Time for School Clip #2 | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/time-for-school-series/introductio... WIDE ANGLEs unprecedented, award-winning 12-year documentary project, Time for School, returns in 2009 with visits to seven classrooms in seven countries to offer a glimpse into the lives of seven extraordinary children who are struggling to get what nearly all American kids take for granted: a basic education. We started filming in 2002, watching as kids first entered school in Afghanistan, Benin, Brazil, India, Japan, Kenya and Romania, many despite great odds. Several years later, in 2006, we returned to film an update — and now, three years later, we travel to check in on our young teenagers who are making the precarious transition to middle school.

These childrens stories put a human face on the shocking fact that more than a hundred million children are currently out of school; of these, two thirds are girls. One in four children in developing countries does not complete five years of basic education, and there are nearly one billion illiterate adults — one-sixth of the worlds people. WIDE ANGLE plans to continue revisiting all the children, and their peers and families, through 2015, the year they should graduate — and, not coincidentally, the U.N.s target date for achieving universal education, a Millennium Development goal endorsed by all 191 members of the United Nations.

While each child in Time for School 3 has a unique story, taken together their lives tell an epic tale, shedding light on one of the most urgent and under-reported stories of our time.

This two-part series airs Wednesday September 2 and September 9 at 10pm in most cities nationwide. Check your local listings for details. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/time-for-school-series/introductio...

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[PUNKishful]

what kind of father is that ?!

[ind49errrr]

i cant belive his father did that!!

[lucasaraujo5]

Harsh life. =/

[M0U53B41T]

Excellent - something everyone should watch.