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you can also be a role model or you can also do something great by maybe focusing on something like science? i speak to schools all the time. one of the things i tell the kids is that most of you will not become successful musicians. most of you will not become successful athletes. most of the successful people that i know are not famous. i actually loved math in high school. i had some great math teachers and i think i was inspired by them just as much as i was inspired by people in liberal arts and music. we know we need inspiration in our education system. david steel, john legend, thanks so much. great to you. we are going to continue to follow you on our social
you know, a poor drug addict needs the same thing that a rich drug addict does. they need betty ford. they don t need prison. grover, let me ask you, when you talk about you look at some of the specific towns, in philly, for example, 66% of low performing schools are in or very near neighborhoods with high incarceration rates. in houston, 83% of low performing schools are in neighborhoods with high rates of incarceration. in l.a., it s 67%. what is that relationship? is it that in areas where the schools are bad people are more likely to go to prison or in places where there are prisons, the families don t have the support at home to make sure the kids are getting the best out of their education system? which goes first? where i think the naacp and taxpayer groups can both agree at the national level and state by state, progress has been made in texas. legislation being introduced in florida to ask look, some people deserve to be in prison
little more to listen. and i thought, he can really hit those high notes. he can sing louder than i can. so andy lunsford, just shy of age 30, took a chance. he applied to opera schools and to his surprise i got scholarships everywhere. there were schools fighting over me a little bit. how did that feel? oh, great. validating, of course. he settled on indiana university s jacobs school of music, one of the best in the world. and uprooted his family, moving from suburban denver to bloomington, indiana, where the lunsfords live on food stamps. so this 31-year-old can focus full time on his craft. he s an amazing instrument. he s like a stradivarius, you know? a star student who recently traveled to los angeles to perform for real stars like harrison ford. the dean says lunsford s story is as unique as his voice. you say you know it when you hear it? yeah.
message about trying to change the world from c in. n heroes to schools across the country. he has teamed up with samsung trying to boost the next generation of mathematicians and engineers and computer scientists, key jobs to get ahead. through a video submission contest with $1 million in prizes. it is called the solve for tomorrow initiative and joining us to talk about it, is singer, john legend and david steel, executive vice president of samsung. first of all, why did you do this and what was the point behind the video project and what you found? well, the exciting thing about this is samsung inspired these young people to be creative and say, convince us why you deserve this technology we are going to give $1 million worth of technology to schools around the country. show us why you deserve us at your school. so these kids made videos. they talked about local issues and how science and math related to those local issues and how they could do something about