First, the people who are in America are only those who were able to--and especially among Asians there has been a systematic tendency that the dumb ones couldn't get here. So the ones that are here are disproportionately professionals.The article notes that there are an awful lot of people in Asia; when empowered by the Internet and cheap PCs the top 0.01% of their IQ bell curve inevitably constitutes a force to be reckoned with. What reason is there to suppose that American secondary education as we know it can in the long run withstand competition from the top 0.1% of Asia's bell curve acting through the Internet?And another issue is the fact that post-secondary education is now practically the norm in America--even among groups which do not hold education up as a primary cultural value. I doubt that remedial English/Math would exist outside that context.
You make some excellent points here.