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Time for School
Thursday, September 4, 2003
Doesn't everyone remember their first day of school? Not everyone can. The facts speak for themselves. Over a hundred million children worldwide have never spent a day in school. One in four does not complete even five years of basic education. Now, 182 nations have promised to provide access to free and compulsory education for every child in the world -- by 2015. To test the reality of this commitment, WIDE ANGLE profiles children in Japan, Kenya, Benin, Brazil, Romania, and India who have managed to enroll in the first year of primary school -- in most cases despite great odds. Planned as the premiere episode of a longitudinal series of films through 2015, this program will provide a fascinating glimpse into the lives of children with very different personalities, in diverse circumstances and countries, all taking a hopeful first step into an uncertain future.
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Producer Judy Katz was the originating producer of EXPLORER JOURNAL for NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TELEVISION, a series-within-a-series in which she sent out Hi-8 cameras with journalists, scientists and lay explorers and helped them tell their own stories. Her work as an independent includes AND BABY MAKES TWO, a theatrical-release documentary which also aired on PBS and OXYGEN, and MADE IN AMERICA, a PBS series about U.S. competitiveness in various high-tech industries.
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