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Egypt\u2019s educational reforms will never be completely effective if classrooms continue to be overcrowded<\/strong>, Abbas El Tarabily writes for Al Masry Al Youm<\/a>. El Tarabily argues that Egypt needs to ramp up its construction of schools to accommodate the number of school-age children, while simultaneously conceding that this project would represent a huge financial burden on the state. He settles his cognitive dissonance by suggesting that Egypt rely on using precast construction technology<\/a>, which would allow the construction of numerous classrooms in a short time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Egypt\u2019s educational reforms will never be completely effective if classrooms continue to be overcrowded, Abbas El Tarabily writes for Al Masry Al Youm. 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