[NobleFree]

school boards are starting to adopt policies based on the bizarre notion that expecting students to get the correct answers in math class is a form of “white supremacy.”

So we may have a pipeline problem - but currently there is no shortage of competent STEM-trained Americans.

[Alberta's Child]

It might depend on the STEM field. What bothered me most about recent U.S. graduates in my field wasn’t their technical skills; it was their disgracefully poor command of the English language. I was astonished at how many American-born STEM graduates had English writing skills that were worse than what I’d see from their peers who spoke English as a second language.