This week on "Sunday Morning" (August 15)

Guest host: Lee Cowan

COVER STORY: Helping students cope with the pressure to succeed
Experts say that students from high achieving schools, who are privileged in terms of educational opportunities, are at greater risk of substance abuse, depression and anxiety than the national norm, because of an unrelenting, insidious pressure to succeed. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with students and a psychologist about how adolescent wellness is as vulnerable to academic pressure as it is to poverty, trauma and discrimination – and how COVID has changed our expectations for student performance.

For more info:

• suniyaluthar.org
• Authentic Connections
• Mercer Island Youth & Family Services Foundation

MUSEUMS: Word play: A visit to D.C.'s Planet Word
Planet Word, Washington's newest museum, takes visitors on a trip through the fascinating world of words, language and reading. Correspondent Chip Reid attends the former school-turned-literary wonderland, which has re-opened following a COVID shutdown.

For more info:

• Planet Word Museum, Washington, D.C.

U.S.: Fire lookouts keep watch over threatened forests
There were once thousands of active fire lookout towers across the country; today, while many are automated, a few hundred are still staffed by people whose jobs is to watch for forest fires in remote, rugged areas, like Klamath National Forest, in California and Oregon. Correspondent Conor Knighton talks with two fire watchers who are scanning the skies.

For more info:

• Klamath National Forest, California-Oregon
• U.S. Forest Service
• Pacific Northwest's Forest Service Rental Program | List

     
MUSIC: Clive Davis and the return of concerts in NYC
When the mayor's office decided to put on a star-studded concert to celebrate New York City's return after lockdown, Clive Davis got the call. The 89-year-old music producer signed on such artists as Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and Paul Simon, in what is his most important project: bringing concerts back to New York. Contributor Kelefa Sanneh reports.

For more info:

• We Love NYC - The Homecoming Concert, on the Great Lawn of Central Park, August 21 at 5 p.m., to be broadcast live globally on CNN | Ticket info (Attendees will be required to present proof of vaccination)
• Follow @CliveDavis on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook

      
PASSAGE: In memoriam
      

MUSIC: The Big Apple returns in "New York State of Mind"
When COVID shut down New York, musical artists found a way to perform anyway, lifting our spirits from the depths of our lockdowns. Now, with performers returning to the stage, "Sunday Morning" debuts a short film from the organization NYCNext that honors the city, with a performance of Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind" by such talents as Sara Bareilles, Idina Menzel, Cautious Clay, Anais Reno and Brian Stokes Mitchell.

For more info:

• NYCNext

      
HARTMAN: Geese

     
MOVIES: Marlee Matlin
Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz reports. 

To watch a trailer for "CODA," click on the video player below:

For more info:

• "CODA" available on Apple TV+ beginning August 13

U.S.: A ghost town's caretaker
Have you been socially-distancing? Not as much as Brent Underwood, who has lived during the COVID lockdown as the sole resident of a ghost town on the edge of Death Valley: the abandoned mining community of Cerro Gordo, California. Correspondent Luke Burbank talks with Underwood, who bought the 380-acre Cerro Gordo in 2018, and has featured it on his YouTube channel, "Ghost Town Living."

For more info:

• Cerro Gordo Mines, Cerro Gordo, Calif.
• Friends of Cerro Gordo (Facebook)
• "Ghost Town Living" (YouTube)
• "Cerro Gordo: Images of America" by Cecile Page Vargo and Roger W. Vargo (Arcadia Publishing), in Trade Paperback, available via Amazon and Indiebound

MUSIC: Songs from the Young@Heart
The average age for members of the Young@Heart Chorus, of Northampton, Mass., is 85. But this isn't your grandfather's choral group; their repertoire includes music from The Ramones, The Rolling Stones, Madonna and Twisted Sister. Correspondent David Pogue talks with singers about the joy of singing "golden oldies" by such composers as Bowie and Springsteen, in this update of a story originally presented on "Sunday Morning" on December 20, 2020.

For more info:

• youngatheartchorus.com (Schedule)
• Young@Heart Chorus (YouTube)
• "Young@Heart" documentary (Searchlight Pictures)

       
NATURE: TBD
      

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