Get Schooled Premiere

Tuesday September 8, 2009 VIACOM AND THE BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION PARAMOUNT STUDIOS, HOLLYWOOD, CA Viacom and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, along with initiative partners AT&T, Capital One Financial Corporation and NYSE Euronext, today launched Get Schooled with a national broadcast and an education conference at the Paramount Pictures lot. The five-year initiative aims to generate greater awareness and engagement in addressing the nation's education crisis and to offer practical resources and support to students. The Get Schooled initiative also announced the results of a poll conducted by The Winston Group showing that an overwhelming percentage of Americans believe that the United States is lagging behind other nations when it comes to the quality of education. Eighty-one percent of survey respondents said that they do not believe that the United States has the best public education system in the world. Eighty-nine percent believe that if American students are not receiving as good of an education as their overseas counterparts, it will have a negative effect on the American economy. The launch events on the Paramount Pictures lot also includeD the premiere of the Get Schooled: You Have the Right documentary featuring President Barack Obama, Kelly Clarkson and LeBron James, and three professionals who work alongside them, which aired across all of Viacom's U.S. networks, including BET, MTV, VH1, CMT, Comedy Central, Spike TV, TV Land and Nickelodeon, at 8 p.m. Eastern/Pacific and 7 p.m. Central. Click here to see what people are saying about Get Schooled Click here for the Get Schooled website
Monica	Miranda Cosgrove	Lo Bosworth
Kim Coles	Maria Menounos	Malin Akerman
Ben Stiller	Hank Azaria	Justin Bartha
Elizabeth Shue, Davis Guggenheim and Arianna Huffington	Rhyon Brown	Seal and Heidi Klum
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