Tech Crunch author Gregory Ferenstein offers some comments on the complex connections between education and economic productivity.
The United States, they find, has among the highest percentage of top-performing students in the world. Whether the abundance of smart students is a product of U.S. culture, an artifact of the genetic lottery, or some unknown factor hidden in our education system is anyone’s guess.
The author notes that our openness fo students from other countries is also a significant contributor to the economic prosperity that can be derived from the productivity of the country.