Why is it that everyone wants to come here to attend our colleges if our schools are so bad? I have a 3rd grader who gets one hour of homework every night. People need to realize that Americans are the most productive and competent workers in the world and stop repeating this mantra that our institutions and our workers are inferior. If India and China had such great institutions then why is it that those workers and students want to come to America?
you make an excellent point. In grades 1-12 we are suffering. But at the university level our universities are recognized today as being very high quality compared to those of almost all other nations. A degree from an american university is much more valuable to an indian in india than a degree from an indian university in india. Their markets clamor for people who graduated from our universities.
One thing Matloff found in his research is that americans dominate undergraduate engineering programs inside of america. But foreigners dominate the graduate programs at those same universities. The Wall Street Journal/Republican/globalist types always like to say that americans are unfit because few americans study these subjects at american grad schools. Heck, few americans do that because the market punishes them for it. The foreigners in those programs are mostly people who can't legally work in our country, but they can legally go to the university's grad schools. That's why they're there. It has nothing to do with foreigners being inherently better at stuff like that.
People also gotto realize, in India they identify talented people and nurture them. Our school systems don't do that. You get a good education in america if you live in an upper income community and we never take talented people and put them into special programs like they do in India. That un-democratic and un-pc impulse grates against our educational establishment. So, when Indians come over here to fill jobs we are frequently seeing the elite of India competing against run-of-the-mill americans. Many of america's talented people who have aptitude for high level high-tech simply slip through the fingers of our educational system while in India they don't let that happen.