Talk of U.S. Crisis in Math, Science Is Largely Misplaced, Skeptics Say.

The article focuses on a controversy related to the statistics shown for educational developments in the U.S. In 1983, the National Commission on Excellence in Education said that foreign students have accounted for an increasing proportion of graduate and undergraduate degrees awarded in the United States in science and engineering. A distinguished panel of scientists and business leaders said that contemporary warnings about the educational problem facing the U.S. economy are being met with some skepticism. China and India, with their many highly skilled but modestly paid workers, are viewed, in particular, as growing threats to the dominant economic status of the United States.