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The Storm is Gathering, no doubt.
Augustine wants to see college students as excited about careers teaching science as they might be to become football players.
Now most athletes know that they are unlikely to make millions playing sports yet still millions of people play (and get injured at) sports. THen again more millions just sit on the couch and let their arteries clog. The storm has been gathering for a while. That Nero guy did not get famous for fiddling in a day. Nobody can agree what to do while huge amounts of ink are used to suggest perfectly reasonable but annattainable solutions.
I remember back 10 or 20 years ago (yes I got my doctorate over 20 YEARS AGO! YIKES!) that the solution to the oversupply of PhDs and undersupply of science teaching talent was that we were all going to end up teaching science to high school students.
Um er...
By the way, I am not sure that the Gathering Storm is linked to BEST except perhaps through some individuals. The Gathering Storm was a National Academy thing, and BEST is addressing diversity in the workforce, based on some commission report several years ago. THey are a public private partnership, but I am not sure what they do besides convening blue ribbon panel meetings and publish reports.