Amy,
You'll note, the number of new Asian scientists immigrating to the USA has dropped by 75% during the late 90s
This is good news and bad news. Bad news is that they are not coming here, that we are not poaching the best talent from the rest of the world.
The good news is that the rest of the world is moving to a less screwed up state, where there are freedoms and opportunities in other countries, that may not have been there before. The US benefited from misfortune of others, less misfortune is good news, even though it may reduce benefits to the US.
What do you think needs to get fixed first?
#1. Parents, large % of parents to demand action, enough of them to succeeds. But this is on a scale of solving world hunger, it will never happen. Parents don't care enough, and they are unaware of the fact that the education their kids get is sub-par compared to competition in Europe and Far East.
#2. A much more modest and realistic proposal, break up of the monopoly of state giving money to failing and corrupt schools, and giving it to parents.
Today, you may have parents who want the right thing, but are trapped in the system. There are too few of them to force changes, and completely shut out from the monopoly flow of money, and in most cases, unable to afford paying 2 tuitions, one to the failed school they don't send their kids to, other tuition for the school where they do want to send their kids to.
Another point in your list I liked is reward structure, in broad sense, reward of what works, efficiency, performance, kind of a market place in education.
Joe |
