The program, Mr. Bell added, could also build new populations of museumgoers.
Asked if he was suggesting "GMA" was now a tabloid-style program, Mr. Bell said, "That's what I'm saying".
The confirmed judges so far include Maria Bartiromo, the anchor of the CNBC program "Closing Bell"; Dan Ariely, professor of behavioral economics at Duke University; Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint.com; and TIAA-CREF's chief executive, Roger Ferguson.
In an interview on Monday CNBC's program "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo," Mr. Thain repeated his promise to repay the cost of the renovations.News of the renovations came last week, just as Mr. Thain was being forced out of Bank of America because of strains over the merger of the two institutions.
Quality summer school through programs like BELL have been shown by rigorous research to substantially improve reading achievement, as have pre-K programs like Educare and community-led tutoring programs like Reading Partners.
But thanks to a furtive application of a feature common to the latest e-mail programs, Mr. Bell was able to learn, undetected, that the intended recipients were indeed opening his messages.
Then we start the speed-back and say, "You have three minutes to answer the question, 'How have you experienced me during this learning program?' " Then the bell rings and the person giving feedback hears how the other perceived them.
Programmed beats, tinkly bell tones, synthesizer swoops, swirling arpeggios, whistling, crunching, his own multiplied voice, whooshing gusts of white noise.
After the second half of the program, Rachmaninoff's "Bells," my daughter and I hastened to the subway.
