I have been involved in recruiting, and have talked to my share of college kids..
I'm sure that you have, Brian. And I commend you for it. I know about the college campus recruiting efforts. That's something that I haven't personally became involved with that but I know that it's been a successful effort. To some extent.
Since about 2000, American kids have been discouraged from STEM degrees by the knowledge that companies are only hiring foreign workers.
Right. But these companies are hiring foreign workers who came here and got the education that American youth didn't. The majority of the top technical colleges run flunkout programs. And toward the end of this response, I'm gonna take you back to 1994 and show you exactly why these kids (now in college) aren't qualified to be phd candidate in the STEM department. Just click on that link for a precise, correct, and thorough explanation. I know that because I went to war with the department of education about it for a very long time.
By the same token, some foreign kids are moving into STEM fields simply becuase they believe their connections will make it easier for them to find jobs.
50% of all PHD candidates are foreign born. And in some cases 100% are foreign born depending on the university. It's beyond just jobs. These people create entire industries. And, again, we're seeing Silicon Valleys popping up in India and China and elsewhere now. Where did they come from? They came from America via the H-1B. Without the H-1B many colleges wouldnt even exist in America.
And becoming educated in the US is one of the easiest and well-known paths to US citizenship. All of these factors have resulted in the situation we have today. It has nothing at all to do with the intelligence or skill levels of Americans vs. these foreign students, and everything to do with hiring preferences, enticements and politics
American graduates regularly compete at the level of third world countries, Brian. Surely you must know this. This is a fact. Do we need to rehash common core to demonstrate? That's just a popular term for the evolution of it, by the way. Common core has been around since the early 90s. It just wasn't called common core. Traditional math linguistics were killed by TERC. Although each course had it's own alter ego of 'TERC'. I only offer TERC here because we're talking about the STEM departments where traditional math is, of course, expected to be uderstood by any given phd candidate, foreign or American. Here's an example of what American Math students have been learnng sunce the early 90s based on the 1994 model that
It's Time to Abandon Computational Algorithms Read that and tell me that these kids, in their late 20s now, are gonna compete with the phd candidates here on the H1-B. Again, 50% of phd candidates are foreign born. 100% in many science colleges.
Also, America hasn't contributed anything of significance since Apollo. And even that technology is being produced by foreign nations while our youth have been taught merely to consume, bow, and obey since the 80s that I can think of. I think Reagan opened up those floodgates so that kids were advertising targets for Chinese junk instead of educating them. I forget the name of the law(corporate penned, btw, by the same people who produced tjer stuff overseas.) but I can sure find it.
