Johnny Can So Program

theodp writes "In Johnny Can So Program, CS Prof Norm Matloff calls BS on CNET stories like Can Johnny Still Program? and Can the U.S. Still Compete?, saying it's a shame that CNET fails to cover the real threat to American technological competitiveness, the hidden agendas of Chicken Littles like Jim Foley of the Computing Research Association, David Patterson of the ACM and former Intel CEO Craig Barrett, all of whose organizations have a vested interest in playing the education card."

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clearly you haven't lived in the US long enough to understand the country. Go to any big university in the US and you will see tons of non americans but you will also see tons of white and asian americans. you are making a broad (and ignorant) generalization about all americans wanting their kids to be an athlete.

As for political agenda, can you show me a country that does not press its political agenda on school kids? you see it the most in "History" class. But i can also show you an indian ICSC physics book that has a problem about how it is not possible drill a hole through the earth and drop and atom bomb in the US because of the way gravity works.

no, there is are three reasons why the US will remain at the forefront. First is obviously private money and the second is national defense research. If i recall the US spends more on defense than the next 14 countries combined. That is not all science research, but tons of it is.

The third and most important reason is the same reason why it has been on top for so long: immigrants.