Sunday Salon

Sunday Salon – June 11, 2006

In our first hour… It’s graduation month for California’s High School seniors, but many – including many honor roll students – won’t be graduating with their classmates. The controversial California High School Exit Exam: who does it help, who does it harm, and how?

Confirmed guests:

  • Dave Brown, member of the West Contra Costa Unified School District Board
  • Vassilisa Johri, Clinical Social Worker, Chappell Hayes Health Center at McClymonds High School
  • Also: Two students affected by the CAHSEE

And in our second hour… The ongoing conflict in the Middle East: Its impacts on the psyche of those fighting and those caught in the crossfire, and what needs to be done
to stop it.

Confirmed guests:

  • Penny Coleman, author: "Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide,
    and the Lessons of War" (Beacon)
  • Sandy Tolan, author: "The Lemon Tree : An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the
    Middle East" (Bloomsbury)

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