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Time for School
Thursday, September 2, 2004
An update of one of last year's most acclaimed films, "Time for School" spotlights the global crisis in access to education. The facts speak for themselves. More than a hundred million children have never spent a day in school -- and 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. Last season WIDE ANGLE visited Japan, Kenya, Benin, Brazil, Romania, and India to meet children who have managed to enroll in the first year of primary school -- in most cases despite great odds. This year's update of "Time for School" will feature the newly shot story of a 12-year-old girl in Afghanistan who is attending classes for the first time with the hope of making up for years of schooling denied her under the rule of the Taliban. "Time for School" introduces viewers to some of the challenges -- poverty, child labor, and violence -- that millions of children around the world face on a daily basis, providing rich insight into the striking disparities of circumstance and opportunity around the globe.
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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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