I applaud Dr. Morris's commentary. He identifies a critical problem in our secondary schools and presents an interesting solution (namely, letting newly minted Ph.D.s teach in our high schools if the barriers established by the local school districts can be surmounted). There are three points that I would like to offer in this regard. First, the primary love of our best and brightest new scientists is research and discovery. It is unlikely that a significant number of them are willing to aba

As director of a departmental graduate program, I have found it increasingly difficult to recruit the best American college students for careers in scientific research. I believe that over the past five years, this has become the norm rather than the exception throughout American research universities. Many experts have predicted severe problems for America’s technological future if the trend is not reversed. The tremendous influx and reliance upon the brightest foreign students for grad