Educational Television

Still pretty tired my Schwarzenegger experience and subsequent red-eye flight back from LA Friday night, I walked over to C-SPAN headquarters Saturday morning to appear on Washington Journal and talk about Education Sector's recently-published slate of education policy ideas for presidential candidates. There's a link to the video here. One thing I learned when watching the program afterward: when you're staring into a television camera, you can't break eye contact for even a moment, or you look distracted and shifty. All in all it was fun; the host and call-in guests asked some good questions, and I got a free coffee mug to take home.

Then I hopped in the car with my lovely wife and drove up to Philadelphia to see Arcade Fire at Tower Theater, which is so vastly superior to D.A.R. Constitution Hall as a venue that even the three-hour drive and expense of staying in a hotel made missing their DC date seem like a wash, at worst. The concert was fantastic, and we spent this morning at the Barnes Foundation art school / museum. Edu-connection: the foundation's original program and charter, which has been subject to bitter court battles in recent years as the foundation has tried to break Barnes' will and move the museum to downtown Philadelphia, was heavily influenced by John Dewey.