Would you let a Nobel prize winner fix education?

TaeKwonDood writes: "Carl Wieman is the 2001 Nobel Prize winner in Physics but what he cares most about is fixing science education. And he can do it. But the real issue is, can someone who went through 20 years of science education as a student, lived his life in academia since then and even got a Nobel prize get a fair shake from bureaucrats who like education the way it is — flawed and therefore always needing more money?"