{"id":982,"date":"2011-05-11T19:59:15","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T17:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/?p=982"},"modified":"2011-05-12T22:35:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T20:35:15","slug":"the-blackboard-monopolists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/the-blackboard-monopolists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blackboard Monopolists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/contributor\/534\" target=\"_blank\">Rajan, Raghuram<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/contributor\/4031\" target=\"_blank\">Barry,Brian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>US President Barack Obama, like many Western leaders nowadays, made improving education one of his main promises to voters during his election campaign. But other domestic issues \u2013 health-care reform, budget battles, and high unemployment \u2013 have understandably loomed larger. And the United States is not alone: education reform is being held up in the United Kingdom and continental Europe as well.<\/p>\n<p>Improving education remains one of the clearest ways that governments can make a lasting positive economic impact. A well-functioning education system is the most effective way to help equip people with the knowledge and skills they need to boost incomes and compete in a globalized economy. The key to such a system is embracing the role that competition can play in delivering better education to students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u03a0\u03b7\u03b3\u03ae: <\/strong>Project Syndicate<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/rajan17\/English\" target=\"_blank\">\u03c0\u03bb\u03ae\u03c1\u03b5\u03c2 \u03ba\u03b5\u03af\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03bf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajan, Raghuram &amp; Barry,Brian. US President Barack Obama, like many Western leaders nowadays, made improving education one of his main promises to voters during his election campaign. But other domestic issues \u2013 health-care reform, budget battles, and high unemployment \u2013 have understandably loomed larger. And the United States is not alone: education reform is being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/1036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poleconomix.gr\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}