to budget cuts and more emphasis on things like common core. but data from the college boards shows students who take art and music lessons through high school store an average of 100 points higher on s.a.t. tests. compared to the average math score for nonmath students 496. let's bring in my fox friend for this week chief correspondent lauren green. and we're going to talk about the connection that people may or may not know. but here's something that we definitely have a connection on which is music in our lives. how important was music in your life? >> i would guess that music is my first love, it's how i understood the world. it's a language unto itself and i believe that i was able to translate other activities because of music. >> so you came from a family in minnesota, we were both in minnesota, there's one connection. and your parents, they did