‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar

[oberliner]

128. By every standard of measurement the US has a much better educational system than Qatar

Also, boys and girls are segregated across the entire system there.

Certainly the super rich of Qatar have an infinitely better educational experience than their less well-to-do counterparts, but both on the high end and the low end, there is no 'leaving in the dust' happening other than in your imagination. In fact, they hired a US company to examine and improve their educational system.

Quoting from their report, they found: "a rigid curriculum emphasizing rote learning, hierarchical institutions with unclear goals, lack of incentives or accountability, and misallocated resources.

One surprising finding of our study was that although Qatar is a wealthy nation, its resources were not flowing to the schools. Within the MoE system, resources were used primarily to support the huge number of personnel, which numbered nearly 17,000 in 2000. Many school buildings were old and deteriorating to the point of being dangerous. Classrooms were overcrowded, with 40-50 students crammed side-by-side into spaces designed for fewer than half this number."

It's certainly encouraging that they are turning to the US in order to help deal with these shortcomings but they still have a long way to go to even approach the US standard.