42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the U.S

Re:42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the... by cloudwizard on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @01:56PM (#14850167)

In US HS, the grades are going up but the world rankings are dropping. Our kids are not being prepared to be competitive.

https://www.nsf.gov/nsb/sei/edTool/data/highschool-08.html FYI - It may not look like much on the graph but the US is 2 years behind the top rankers.

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Re:42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the... by gpawl on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:19PM (#14850424)

I'd like to see that graph expanded to distributions, and weighted by population.

I'd also like to see China and India and Russia on that list.

USA is big enough to be an above average nation and a below average nation combined.

Israel, that ranks significantly below the US on that chart, has perhaps the largest technology industry per capita in the world.

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Re:42% of California’s STEM Workforce Hails from Outside the... by eli_gottlieb on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:46PM (#14850694)

>Israel, that ranks significantly below the US on that chart, has perhaps the largest technology industry per capita in the world.

Which runs largely on olim hadashim (new immigrants) from Western countries and the former Soviet Union.

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