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What is striking to me is that the table of AP tests taken (2016) in the article clearly states:

Calculus AB 302,532 Calculus BC 118,707

for a total of 421,239 students taking this demanding technical subject and exam in 2016 (one year). Undoubtedly, in this day and age of cheap readily available computers with more power than a 1980's Cray supercomputer, most of these students both have computers and have undoubtedly done lots of programming whether they have taken AP Computer Science or not.

As for Microsoft, they have announced numerous layoffs of tens of thousands of highly skilled engineers in the last few years, for example:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-layoffs-of-18000-empl...

Many in Finland which consistently ranks TOP in international ratings of education, math, and science.