Comment: I used to be in the business, in part, of recruiting and retaining highly qualified researchers in internationally competitive fields and noticed an upsurge of interest at the time of the second Iraq war and Bush's reelection. However, it was largely among Canadians and Europeans and other foreigners, many of whom had been working in the US for some time, not Americans.  Moreover, the interest was increased by three other factors: (1) a stronger Canadian dollar increasing the comparative value of salaries and research dollars for equipment largely priced in foreign currencies, (2) lower housing costs in major cities, and, for parents, (3) good, internationally competitive public schools, that didn't require them to consider expensive private schools. The first two advantages have obviously disappeared,  and the third is going,  thanks to incompetent Ministries of Education and their pseudo-scientific fads. Highly educated parents know the international test scores.