Reimagining Federal Education R&D: DARPA for Education

Reimagining Federal Education R&D: DARPA for Education

Earlier in my professional life, I was the head of the political science department at Stony Brook University. When the chairs of the arts and science met, someone from the physical or life sciences would inevitably argue that the “hard” natural sciences deserved more support than the “soft” social sciences. My rejoinder was one of my favorite quotes: “God has chosen to give the easy problems to physicists.” I always (and wrongly) attributed thi…