{"id":23,"date":"2004-02-11T22:59:51","date_gmt":"2004-02-11T22:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2004-02-11T22:59:51","modified_gmt":"2004-02-11T22:59:51","slug":"watching_the_jobs_go_by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Watching the Jobs Go By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times OP-ED Columnist Nick Kristof on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/02\/11\/opinion\/11KRIS.html?ex=1391835600&#038;en=4bea53a70cd63c95&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">weakness in US science and math education<\/a>.<br \/>\nMr. Subbakrishna, a management consultant specializing in technology, notes that in his native Bangalore, children learn algebra in elementary school. All in all, he says, the average upper-middle-class child in Bangalore finishes elementary school with a better grounding in math and science than the average kid in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times OP-ED Columnist Nick Kristof on the weakness in US science and math education. Mr. Subbakrishna, a management consultant specializing in technology, notes that in his native Bangalore, children learn algebra in elementary school. All in all, he says, the average upper-middle-class child in Bangalore finishes elementary school with a better grounding in math [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}