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NBA star LeBron James and singer Kelly Clarkson will join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and broadcaster Viacom for a TV special to encourage America's youth to "Get Schooled," organizers announced Friday.
The Cleveland Cavaliers player and "American Idol" champ will discuss the role education has played in their lives in the 30-minute show to air Sept. 8. It will be broadcast simultaneously across MTV, Nickelodeon, BET and 18 other youth-oriented Viacom TV channels.
Called "Get Schooled: You Have the Right" and airing as a new school year starts, the program formally kicks off a five-year national initiative developed by Viacom and the Foundation set up by Microsoft chairman Gates to address the challenges facing American education.
"Far too many people enter adulthood unprepared for college, career and life," said Allan Golston, president of the U.S. program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "Changing this reality requires the full engagement of the corporate and nonprofit communities, working harder to support students, families and schools to create an expectation in every community that a college education is possible for all young people."
