U. S. and Europe’s approach to foreign students is to westernize them in a way of educating future leaders.

The idea that educating future leaders from other nations will make them more Western has long guided the U. S. and Europe’s generous approach to foreign students of high and low parentage but not everyone thinks it works.

High school students are trying opioids like prescription painkillers and heroin less and less, even amid an opioid epidemic that’s contributing to an alarming number of deaths in America. The rate of high school seniors who had tried narcotics declined by about half.