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.