The West Trained Them. What If They Took It All Back Home?

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The data out of America is hard to ignore. High school seniors recently posted the lowest reading and math scores ever recorded, and the share of American adults at the lowest level of literacy climbed from 19 to 28 percent in just six years. But the bigger question isn't about the West at all. It's about everyone else. Our guest, Azziz Abu Tayeb, grew up in the UK and has spent more than twenty years working in education in the Middle East. He's seen the Muslim world's schools up close, and he's honest about them: the institutions are still behind. But the hunger for education is real. Families sacrifice for it. Students chase it. And that kind of drive doesn't stay behind forever. So what happens when the gap closes? What happens when the West has real competition? And what happens if the Muslims who were trained in Western universities.