If You C.A.R.E. About Preventing Truancy
Special Guest: Eason Ramson - C.A.R.E. Program Director
YMCA's C.A.R.E. Program Director, Eason Ramson joins Allen to discuss C.A.R.E.'s nine-week educational
program that provides truant youth with an innovative map to graduation and the support needed to make it
there.
The Dangers of Schoolyard Pollution
Special Guest: Blake Morrison - USA Reporter & Grantham Prize Winner, Co-Author - The Smokestack Effect
2009 Winner of the Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment, Blake Morrison joins Allen
to talk about the research that he, and fellow USA Today reporter Brad Heath, did to uncover the major
industrial pollution affecting more than 128,000 school playgrounds in and around major U.S.
cities.
