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作者：Anonymous 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
NFAP: New Study Finds Over 60% of the Nation's Top Science and Math Students are Children of Immigrants
ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 19, 2004--New research from the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP), an Arlington, VA-based public policy group, shows that 60 percent of the nation's top science students and 65 percent of the top math students are the children of immigrants.
A new study released Monday by NFAP also shows that foreign-born high school students make up 50 percent of the 2004 U.S. Math Olympiad's top scorers, 38 percent of the U.S. Physics Team, and 25 percent of the Intel Science Talent Search finalists--the United States' most prestigious awards for young scientists and mathematicians.
The foundation produced these findings after conducting more than 50 interviews and examining the immigration backgrounds of top U.S. high school students. The study, The Multiplier Effect, is published in the upcoming issue of International Educator and a complete copy of the report can be found at www.nfap.net.
"These findings provide evidence that maintaining an open policy toward skilled professionals, international students, and legal immigration is vital to America's technological and scientific standing in the world," said Stuart Anderson, Executive Director of NFAP and author of the report.
"If opponents of immigration had succeeded over the past 20 years, two-thirds of the most outstanding future American scientists and mathematicians would not be here today because U.S. policy would have barred their parents from entering the United States," said Anderson.
"Efforts to preserve U.S. strength in science and technology should start by recognizing the key role that immigrants and their children play in the nation's leadership in these fields. As the research demonstrates, the contributions made by the children of immigrants are beyond that ever considered by policymakers," Anderson said. The study's key findings include:
-- Sixty percent of the finalists of the Intel Science Talent Search (24 of 40) and 65 percent of the U.S. Math Olympiad's top scorers (13 of 20) are the children of immigrants. Forty-six percent of U.S. Physics Team members (11 of 24) are the children of immigrants.
-- Seven of the top 10 award winners at the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search were immigrants or their children. In 2003, three of the top four awardees were foreign-born.
-- Among finalists in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, more children (1 have parents who entered the country on H-1B (professional) visas than parents born in the United States (16). More of the Math Olympiad top scorers also have parents who received H-1B visas (10) than parents born in the United States (7). New H-1B visa holders each year represent less than 0.04 percent of the U.S. population, illustrating the substantial gain in human capital that the United States receives from the entry of these individuals and their offspring.
-- Nearly a quarter (9 of 40) of Intel Science Talent Search finalists' parents came to America as international students. Twenty percent (4) of the U.S. Math Olympiad top scorers' parents entered first as international students.
-- Foreign-born high school students make up 50 percent of the 2004 U.S. Math Olympiad's top scorers, 38 percent of the U.S. Physics Team, and 25 percent of the Intel Science Talent Search finalists.
-- Today, more than 50 percent of the engineers with Ph.D.s working in the United States - and 45 percent of math and computer scientists with Ph.D.s - are foreign-born, according to the National Science Foundation.
"While some have decried the 'exporting' of U.S. jobs and intellectual capital, many of those individuals also oppose the nation's openness to skilled professionals and students entering the county on temporary visas, ironically, a key source of maintaining and expanding the United States' intellectual base in science, mathematics, and technology," said Anderson.
One should not infer from the study that the United States gains only from the entry of high-skilled professionals and their children. Immigration is the crucial factor in determining whether labor force growth in the United States rises or becomes stagnant as in Western Europe. Parents of six of the 40 Intel Science Talent Search finalists, including three family-sponsored immigrants and two refugees, arrived through the general openness of the United States' immigration system, as opposed to its employment-based part. Two of the top Math Olympiad top scorers entered as family-sponsored immigrants.
The Intel Science Talent Search finalists showed a diverse mix of foreign-born parents, including seven from India, five from China, three from Taiwan, two each from Russia and Ukraine, and one each from Vietnam, Israel, Turkey, and South Korea. The foreign-born parents of the 2004 U.S. Math Olympiad's top scorers were divided among South Korea (four), China (four), Russia (three), and India (two). Nearly all of the immigrant parents of U.S. Physics Team members were born in China. The parents of Elena Udovina, born in Russia, are an exception.
The report provides examples of many outstanding children of immigrants poised to make substantial contributions to American society.
About the National Foundation for American Policy
Started in 2003, the NFAP is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to public policy research on trade, immigration and other issues of national importance. Its Advisory Board members include economist Jagdish Bhagwati (Columbia University); Richard Vedder (Ohio State University); former U.S. Rep. Guy Vander Jagt (MI); former INS Commissioner Jim Ziglar; Cesar Conda, former Domestic Policy Advisor for Vice President Dick Cheney, and others.
About Stuart Anderson
Stuart Anderson, Executive Director of NFAP, served as Executive Associate Commissioner for Policy and Counselor to the Commissioner at the Immigration and Naturalization Service from August 2001 to January 2003. He spent four and a half years on Capitol Hill on the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, for Senator Spencer Abraham and Senator Sam Brownback, and has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and elsewhere.
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