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(September 2 & 9, 2009) WIDE ANGLE’s award-winning 12-year documentary project, Time for School, follows seven children from seven countries who are struggling to achieve a basic education.
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WIDE ANGLE viewers often ask what they can do to help. Here is a short list of organizations working to promote education in the countries featured in Time for School.
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The U.N. Millennium Development Goals call for universal primary education by 2015. But around the world, minorities are being left behind.
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Watch the full episode of Time for School 3, WIDE ANGLE’s award-winning 12-year documentary project that follows seven children from seven countries who are struggling to achieve a basic education.
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Join a live online discussion with the film's producers and global education experts Thursday, September 10th at 12:00 noon.
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See letters and watch videos from several students featured in the Time for School series.
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This slideshow shows the kids from Time for School through the years, as they’ve grown into teenagers, and some cases, have had to take on very adult responsibilities.
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Watch a preview of Time for School 3, the third part of WIDE ANGLE's 12-year series on global education.
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A roundup of links to local stories of global importance from around the world.
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The University of Brasilia's affirmative action process is about to enter a crucial week. Students who have identified themselves as Afro-Brazilian must pose for a photograph that will be evaluated by a secret committee. This panel will try to determine whether students look "black enough" to qualify for the quota system.
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To participate in the University of Brasilia's quota program, applicants must do something most have never been required to do - identify themselves as black.
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Iolanda dos Santos and her family moved to Brasilia from a poor region of northeast Brazil. She is currently undecided whether or not she should apply to the university under the racial quota system.
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Brazil has long presented itself as a "racial democracy" but deep disparities in income, education and employment have finally prompted a campaign for equal treatment for Afro-Brazilians. Brazil in Black and White captures a unique moment as a nation looks in the mirror.
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Seventeen-year-old Josie de Souza is one of almost 23,000 students taking this year's entrance exam for the University of Brasilia. She hopes to be one of those admitted under its new racial quota system.
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Funding for Wide Angle is provided by PBS, Ford Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation, Judy and Josh Weston, the Estates of Helen and Sam Roseman, Bernard and Irene Schwartz, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, and the Dr. Robert C. and Tina Sohn Foundation. Corporate support is provided by Mutual of America Life Insurance Company. Special funding for Time for School 3 is provided by Ida C. Schwartz, in memory of Bernard S. Schwartz; Carnegie Corporation of New York; and Paul P. Tanico. Additional funding for educational materials is provided by The Overbrook Foundation.
