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Minority teacher. black men makeup only 2% of the nation's teaching force. tomorrow, john legend will join teach for america for a google hangout encouraging more african-american men to join the field. >> it's not very often that my students get to see someone who looks like them who also has a schedu college degree. >> joining me now is john legend. john, it's an honor and a pleasure to have you on the show. >> it's great to finally be on the show. i watch you all the time. >> and i watch you and listen to your music all the time. it's a mutual appreciation. first off, thank you for doing th...

Absolutely great. they're very effective. so why would you want to rid the school district of those highly effective people? you've got to get rid of policies like that if you're going to make sure we have the best teachers in the classroom and this country is gog make sure that we have the best teaching force in the world. >> absolutely. those are great goals, realistic, if we follow what you say. we thank you for being with us. we certainly all want what's best for the kids. >> absolutely. >> thank you for joining us today from nashville. >> one of my favorite places. coming up, we heard a...

Dunbar was great, because its teaching force was great, its principles were great. and the thing that i think we're finally having real conversations about is who is in our classroom, teaching our children. these people were not just accomplished, they lived in the community that our young people lived in and so there were connections. they also communicated that they cared about these young people. they held them to high expectations. and i've been in far too many classrooms where the people that we are paying actually don't hold high expectations for our young people. >> so, christina, i wan...

Them more technology. >> steve: we have a clip from jeb bush. >> please. >> it is focused on accountability and the way we do that. we grade ab, cdor f. politicians don't know anything about education. most of the this is not dictating what teachers do, it is setting expectations of the results. >> gretchen: so much of the talk is about the unions. is that part of the focus of the special as well? >> no. in many cases unions are opposed to introducing the technology. why? because they see it undercutting teachers. budget constraints were in place and the decision is not increase the teaching f...

Just at the core of what is going on in our education discussion. and i'm constantly feeling this sense of angst not that charter schools don't have some role in a kind of broad education menu, for example, but the extent to which it feels like we think charter schools are the solution to the problems we're facing. >> well, i agree. some charters are great and some are terrible. charters give you the freedom to get it right. they don't mean you will get it right. and there aren't easy answers. that's what we're looking for, a knight in shining armor to come in and save us. >> superman we might...