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Louisville metro department of corrections jail inmate thomas "bam bam" lewis has been many things. a tattoo artist. a boxer. an arm wrestler. and a high school dropout. most recently hes shown a talent for disposing of old phone books. one thing he thought hed never be is a math tutor. >> all right. lets start by finishing up doing -- >> the ones we missed? >> doing the ones you missed. >> lewis says the one thing about jail hes grateful for is the ged program, which he has just completed. and ...

Of corrections jail inmate thomas "bam bam" lewis has been many things. a tattoo artist. a boxer. an arm wrestler. and a high school dropout. most recently hes shown a talent for disposing of old phone books. one thing he thought hed never be is a math tutor. >> all right. lets start by finishing up doing -- >> the ones we missed? >> doing the ones you missed. >> lewis says the one thing about jail hes grateful for is the ged program, which he has just completed. and now he wants to pay it forwa...

Louisville metro department of corrections jail inmate thomas "bam bam" lewis has been many things. a tattoo artist. a boxer. an arm wrestler. and a high school dropout. most recently hes shown a talent for disposing of old phone books. one thing he thought hed never be is a math tutor. >> all right. lets start by finishing up doing -- >> the ones we missed? >> doing the ones you missed. >> lewis says the one thing about jail hes grateful for is the ged program, which he has just completed. and ...

Louisville metro department of corrections jail inmate thomas "bam bam" lewis has been many things. a tattoo artist. a boxer. an arm wrestler. and a high school dropout. most recently hes shown a talent for disposing of old phone books. one thing he thought hed never be is a math tutor. >> all right. lets start by finishing up doing -- >> the ones we missed? >> doing the ones you missed. >> lewis says the one thing about jail hes grateful for is the ged program, which he has just completed. and ...

Anybody found out because i was afraid. >> reporter: diamond got pregnant at just 16 years old after a friend raped her. when she made up her mind to keep the child, her family kicked her out of the house. >> it was basically going from house to house. whoever would take me and my daughter and because i wasnt working. i was in school. i had to stop going to school. i had to drop out of my 12th grade year. >> reporter: diamond is raising her daughter, has a part-time job and studying for a ged te...

An arm wrestler. and a high school dropout. most recently hes shown a talent for disposing of old phone books. one thing he thought hed never be is a math tutor. >> all right. lets start by finishing up doing -- >> the ones we missed? >> doing the ones you missed. >> lewis says the one thing about jail hes grateful for is the ged program, which he has just completed. and now he wants to pay it forward. >> im helping the gentlemen get ready for their ged test. its just something i volunteer to do...

Louisville metro department of corrections jail inmate thomas "bam bam" lewis has been many things. a tattoo artist. a boxer. an arm wrestler. and a high school dropout. most recently hes shown a talent for disposing of old phone books. one thing he thought hed never be is a math tutor. >> all right. lets start by finishing up doing -- >> the ones we missed? >> doing the ones you missed. >> lewis says the one thing about jail hes grateful for is the ged program, which he has just completed. and ...

Louisville metro department of corrections jail inmate thomas "bam bam" lewis has been many things. a tattoo artist. a boxer. an arm wrestler. and a high school dropout. most recently hes shown a talent for disposing of old phone books. one thing he thought hed never be is a math tutor. >> all right. lets start by finishing up doing -- >> the ones we missed? >> doing the ones you missed. >> lewis says the one thing about jail hes grateful for is the ged program, which he has just completed. and ...

Louisville metro department of corrections jail inmate thomas "bam bam" lewis has been many things. a tattoo artist. a boxer. an arm wrestler. and a high school dropout. most recently hes shown a talent for disposing of old phone books. one thing he thought hed never be is a math tutor. >> all right. lets start by finishing up doing -- >> the ones we missed? >> doing the ones you missed. >> lewis says the one thing about jail hes grateful for is the ged program, which he has just completed. and ...

With critical thinking skills, most colleges today would get an f. we are joined by nyu professor and co-author of "academically adrift" richard aren. good morning. >> good morning. we dont find many kids like that today getting those kinds of grades. today, we would give them bs. >> in fact, you have suggested that maybe we need to give kids a ged test just to see what they know because some of the kids who didnt go to college are smarter than the kids who do. >> yeah, that proposal by clarence...