American businesses would rather gamble on finding talent abroad than rely on homegrown collegiates who have been through the entire public school system in the United States. Nonetheless, for its part, the higher education establishment finds more value in teaching young men and women how to meet goals and timetables under affirmative action rather than how to meet payroll in the middle of a business slump. “Students are coming out of college with huge debt, but with some of the lowest competencies I have ever seen,” Stetson University professor Peter F. Lake said at a conference recently, according to the...