An article in the NY Times describes the growing number of Chinese students who are coming to the US to attend college.  The report quotes statistics that reveal an increase both in undergraduate and graduate level enrollments.  Also increasing are the number of students coming from India to attend university.  The Times and other publications report quite frequently of the failing primary and secondary education system in the US.  Using mainly test scores to base the conclusions, these reports often show a major discrepancy between an American education and one to be attained elsewhere.  The US system seems to fall short.  I just wonder, though, if our systems is in such bad shape, then who is teaching these students coming from abroad to attend our universities.  Logic would say that the professors at the college level were, at one point, students in the American system and, therefore, it can't be in such bad shape because it is still producing students of professorial caliber.