The article omits many factors, and fails to explain contradictions. There is no input from professional and labor organizations which view the use of technical labor imported from overseas as an anti-labor attempt to suppress wages and benefits of American engineers, technicians, and scientists. Very little on the quality of the degrees of graduates from overseas universities. Very little on the diverse educational results between rich white schools and poor racially diverse schools in the United States. The article sins by omission.

It's good because it points to a possible long term problem in maintaining the U.S. position in the scientific and technological fields - and thus our economy. Perhaps the full report contains more detail on things like exactly how to improve education, which is essentially locally controlled, and how to convince INS that not every potential overseas student (or teacher) is also a potential terrorist, and how to convince everyone that 'teaching to the test' may not be the best way to nurture talent.

This is a good summary of an interesting report, but the links in the story have to be the oddest I have seen. For instance the link to Rand was useless, as it was to RAND.com not Rand.org. If you want to read the whole report, Rand.org provides it for free download "as a public service" and I've got the link below.