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		<title>Time for School Series: Article: Who&#8217;s Being Left Behind?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twelve-year-old Bishal attends the government school in Dholka, a small town in Gujarat, India. Every Wednesday, Bishal, a member of the Dalit, or “untouchable” caste, is expected to clean the classroom and playground. Only the Dalits – the term means “oppressed” or “broken,” – are expected to do chores in school. “I have been asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for School Series: Video: Pen Pals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After watching Time for School, a group of students from Lawrence Middle School in Long Island, NY, wanted to do something to help Joab, the Kenyan boy in the film, and his classmates at Ayany Primary School in Nairobi. They started a club called "Kenya Krew" in 2006 and in the years since, have raised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for School Series: Live Discussion on Global Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Call  (718) 506-1351 to join the conversation!

WIDE ANGLE’s unprecedented, award-winning 12-year documentary project, Time for School, follows seven kids in seven countries struggling to get what nearly all American kids take for granted: a basic education. 

On Thursday, September 10th at 12:00 noon, EST, we'll be hosting a live discussion with Oren Rudavsky and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Links: Obama Addresses U.N., Co-Ed University Opens in Saudi Arabia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama addresses the U.N. general assembly, touching on issues including climate change, arms reduction, and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and says that the U.S. is committed to "a new era of engagement with the world." Directly following Mr. Obama's speech, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi takes the floor.

Earlier this morning, President Obama spoke with Israeli Prime [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for School Series: Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It’s the human stories of overcoming adversity that jump out at one in Time for School.... Wide Angle’s documentaries are about the real world — the world beyond reality TV and Hollywood excess.”
–Canwest News

“As heart wrenching as it is informative.... You’ll have a pit in your stomach by the end of the show.”
–Families.com

WIDE ANGLE’s unprecedented, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for School Series: How You Can Help</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/time-for-school-series/how-you-can-help/5521/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WIDE ANGLE viewers often ask what they can do to help. It is our policy not to give out personal contact information of people appearing in our programs to viewers or anyone else. We do offer a short list below of organizations working to promote education in the countries featured in Time for School. We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for School Series: Interview: Angelique Kidjo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thompsonc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Benin-born singer and songwriter Angelique Kidjo rose to fame in Africa as a teenager and became an international star with a Grammy win for the album “Djin Djin.” Yet before she achieved worldwide renown, Kidjo struggled to obtain what many in the developed world take for granted — access to education. She was appointed UNICEF [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for School Series: Filmmaker Notes</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/time-for-school-series/filmmaker-notes/271/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hervé Cohen, Field Producer in Benin, 2009
Please view the original post to see the video.
Ruhi Hamid, Field Producer in Afghanistan, 2009
Please view the original post to see the video.
Oren Rudavsky, Field Producer in India, 2009 
Please view the original post to see the video.
Judy Katz, Producer, 2007

Three years ago, I was responsible for finding seven children in seven different countries whose stories highlighted something particular about education in their parts of the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for School Series: Slideshow: Through the Years</title>
		<link>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/time-for-school-series/slideshow-through-the-years/4384/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/time-for-school-series/slideshow-through-the-years/4384/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Time for School Series, WIDE ANGLE follows seven kids from seven countries from their first day at school to what will hopefully be their high school graduation, to show the struggles and rewards of getting an education. Meet Joab from Kenya, Shugufa from Afghanistan, Raluca from Romania, Jefferson from Brazil, Neeraj from India, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time for School Series: Preview: Time for School 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lauren feeney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please view the original post to see the video.]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil in Black and White: Video Segment 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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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.]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil in Black and White: Video Segment 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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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. ]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil in Black and White: Discussion Guide Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American style affirmative action is coming to Brazil, a country that has long seen itself as a colorblind society. WIDE ANGLE follows the lives of four students from diverse backgrounds competing to win a coveted spot at the elite University of Brasilia, where 20 percent of the incoming freshmen must qualify as Afro-Brazilian. Brazil has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil in Black and White: Discrimination and Affirmative Action in Brazil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david reisman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Edward E. Telles
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photo credit: Ademir Rodrigues

In 2001, on the heels of the United Nations Conference on Racism in Durban, South Africa, several Brazilian institutions established race-based affirmative action for the first time ever in that country. Affirmative action represented a major step in Brazil's process of democratization and nation-building, which ran [...]]]></description>
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