Learn more about China and its education system from these additional web resources.

Educational resources for students and teachers.

Educational resources for students and teachers.

Educational resources for students and teachers.

The first students returned to school in Wenchuan, China, the epicenter of last month’s devastating earthquake, which killed nearly 70,000 people.

See how the children featured in WIDE ANGLE episode "Time for School" are faring now in the "Kid Cards" photo essay.

One of the silent killers attacking the developing world is the lack of quality basic education for large numbers of the poorest children in the world's poorest countries -particularly girls. Yet unlike many of the world's most grievous ailments, this is a disease with a known cure.

September 5, 2006: Gene Sperling, senior fellow for economic policy and director of the Center for Universal Education at the Council on Foreign Relations, discusses the global effort to achieve a free education for every child in the world by 2015 with anchor Daljit Dhaliwal.

WIDE ANGLE profiles seven children in seven countries earning an education, often in the face of great odds.

Links to information on Islam, education for women, and women's rights organizations.

According to UNESCO, one out of every five school-aged children, approximately 115 million, in developing countries is not enrolled in primary school. One out of four women in the world cannot read.

A photo essay about innovative programs that offer basic education to the poorest children.

Girls' education is emerging as one of the top priorities of the international development community.

More than a hundred million children have never spent a day in school. Time for School spotlights the global crisis in access to education.