The U.N. Millennium Development Goals call for universal primary education by 2015. But around the world, minorities are being left behind.

Pen pals from Long Island, NY and Nairobi, Kenya exchange video messages about school, family and their hopes for the future.

Join a live online discussion with the film's producers and global education experts Thursday, September 10th at 12:00 noon.

A roundup of links to local stories of global importance from around the world.

(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.

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.

Read the complete transcript of Aaron Brown's interview with Angelique Kidjo.

The filmmakers talk about their experiences meeting the children and following their stories.

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.

Watch a preview of Time for School 3, the third part of WIDE ANGLE's 12-year series on global education.

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.

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.

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.

by Edward Telles. 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.