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Daniel Zwerdling talks to education researcher Gerald Bracey about the state of American education. Bracey feels, contrary to public opinion, that the education system is in fact doing very well. He says that the school system includes a more diverse group of students than it did 50 years ago and education standards compare very favourably with the rest of the industrialized world.

SCOTT SIMON AND DANIEL SCHORR, WEEKEND EDITION'S SENIOR NEWS ANALYST, TALK ABOUT THE TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK.

Actor, CLARENCE WILLIAMS III. He is best known as the bell-bottomed clad hippie cop on the "The Mod Squad." WILLIAMS is noted as a theater actor and Tony Award nominee. In addition, he has appeared in numerous TV shows such as "The Cosby Show" and "Hill Street Blues", and films such as "Purple Rain" and "Sugar Hill." WILLIAMS plays a mortician in the new action horror film "Tales From The Hood.

TV critic, DAVID BIANCULLI reviews Diane Sawyer''s interview with Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley, which aired June 14th on ABC''s "Primetime."

Daniel talks with Kenneth Mann, law professor at Tel Aviv University, about the Israeli police policy of using force during interrogations in which terrorism is suspected. Mann says Israeli's realize that sometimes one must balance this "uncomfortable necessity" with the reality of the situation they live in.

Poet, critic and translator ROBERT HASS. This year, The U.S. Library Congress named HASS has the American Poet Laureate. Two collections of his work were published last year, Selected Poems 1954-1986, and Provinces 1987-1991. He translated, with poet Robert Pinsky, Czeslaw Milosz's The Separate Notebooks. His essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Antaeus, and Salmagundi. Many of his essays are collected in the book, Twentieth Century. He won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for his first volume of poetry, Field Guide, published in 1973.(Rebroadcast. Originally aired 1/16/89.)Poet SHARON OLDS. She writes passionate and intensely personal poems about her childhood with abusive and alcoholic parents, and her own experiences as a mother and a wife. Suicide attempts in New York, and encounters on the subway also provide inspiration for her work. Sharon Olds is the recipient of the 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award for her collection titled The Dead and the Living. (Rebroadcast, Originally aired 6/29/88.

IN COMMEMORATION OF THE 68TH ANNIVERSARY OF CHARLES LINDBERGH'S HISTORIC NON-STOP TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT, SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ISABEL HAYNES, WHO WAS 12 YEARS OLD AND A SPECTATOR WHEN HE TOOK OFF FROM ROOSEVELT FIELD IN NEW YORK'S LONG ISLAND ON MAY 20, 1927.

ALISON DES FORGES (pronounced DAY-FORZSH) is a consultant to Human Rights Watch Africa. Last month, the Rwandan Patriotic Army opened fire at a refugee camp. Human Rights Watch says 2000 people were killed. Des Forges visited the camp following the massacre. DES FORGES is also the Co-Chair of the International Commission on Human Rights Abuse in Rwanda. She is a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where her specialty is the African countries of Rwanda and Burundi. (THIS CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE

Heavyweight champion GEORGE FOREMAN. At age 46 FOREMAN still retains the title. He is presently a preacher, community leader and dedicated child advocate. His new book By George: The Autobiography of George Foreman (Villard Books) written with Joel Engel, reveals the man behind the champion

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