DOE has requested a 15 %, $ 80 million increase for its Advanced
Scientific Computing Research program — the largest boost in the Office
of Science — to help accelerate the
effort, which Moniz said could bear
fruit as early as 2022 or 2023.
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.