To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates
effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their
focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that
effort; 4) The scale of the political
effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing
intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.
Rather than
intellectual property holders
focusing on piracy, with this bill, they seek to curtail federal government
efforts to make federally funded research more widely available.
In his new role, he will help lead the
efforts of the committee, which includes approximately 50 members from across the country,
focusing on
intellectual property licensing and...