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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With AI advancing rapidly, the U.S. should focus on developing and supporting highly/truly qualified American STEM students.

I disagree with the idea that American STEM talent is inferior or that the solution is simply to rely more heavily on international hiring. The top students are pretty capable. In many cases, outsourcing and contractor-heavy models are primarily used to suppress compensation.[/quote]

My dad is a Physics Phd who supervised and befriended many immigrant PhD students at several major U.S. universities.  Their performance in the workplace and their children's academic performance exceeds his own children's and grandchildren's performance.

I feel that weak US K-12 education is definitely implicated in holding US kids back.  It starts with poor methods/poor curriculum.  That encourages disinterest.

That said, no question that the US attracts many of the best and brightest from abroad.  And the top 1% of very large populations is large in proportion to the number of born-here people.

It's not all about driving wages down.

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You blame the curriculum when the actual issue is with the White families who do not prioritize a STEM education for their kids. Asian kids going through the same curriculum are doing alright. The issue is with White parents.[/quote]

It's not that they don't emphasize STEM.  They don't have to emphasize STEM.  They don't emphasize rigor.[/quote]

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