The Atlantic has a great post, It's about the Money Stupid on why Americans are not going into STEM, if they are smart and have a choice.

Whining and hand wringing over the state of science and math education in this country will have little impact if the jobs for scientists, engineers and mathematicians remain so uncertain, and so readily outsourced or filled by visa holders from abroad. Young Americans are not nearly so lazy or stupid as many pundits make them out to be--the best and the brightest will turn to math and science only if and when it pays to do so.

Has a place to comment and you might thank them for stating the obvious, going against the grain of lobbyists who want their press releases rewritten in major press.