WIDE ANGLE | Time for School | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/time-for-school-series/introductio... WIDE ANGLE's 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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[SeeBillyRun]

The Taliban is to Islam what the KKK is to Christianity. Both groups distort and twist scripture in such an evil way... its disheartening to see what happens when organized religion is grossly misinterpreted and then taken to an extreme.

[smettiuss]

87 views and not even 1 frikkin comment? People, I know this isn't exactly the "Lindsday Lohan news", but don't you feel anything? lol

This makes me feel grateful.

[amandajack007]

I've been watching this in my fifth grade class. I looked it up to do more research. I have to do a report on one of these kids. I'm picking her :D

[heomak]

@aimalkhan123 Bullshit. I used to live in Pakistan(2 years) and most Pakistani's don't look very different from their fellow South Asians like neighboring India. Majority are brown just like Indians. A very tiny minority resemble this girl. Why are South Asians so freakin desperate to associate with white europeans? Love yourself! So many youtube comments are just like yours(claiming white heritage and boasting about light skin and light eyes as if that makes you better than brown skinned people

[nsand91]

Cup without a handle ? thats interesting

[articlepk]

nice

[katynme]

@BobagemLixo he passed by through the South of Iran and through Balochistan in Pakistan. The Pashtuns were not affected by Alexanders army. Not all Caucasian features are due to mixing with white people. And your forgetting that Pashtuns are thought to be descended from Aryans.

[1bqpw5gm]

haha

[1bqpw5gm]

watch that bomb lol

[Qwentry101]

Wow. It is so amazing how much these kids appreciate school compared to the kids in America. I have not heard a kid say that they loved school for a long time. It was nice to hear.

[retrograderenegades]

You know that's an excellent point, I never compared the Taliban to the KKK like that. I love this series I've watched it from the start it's very heart warming to see children living in these types of conditions with such ambition to want to be something great. Suga Fa has been one of my favorites I think she's adorable, I love all these kids I cant wait to see what becomes of them at the end of the series

[BobagemLixo]

probably Alexander the Great's army passed by there millenia ago. . .