On Feb 15, 2010, at 9:15 AM, brad bauerly wrote:
>> Yes, and this is a genuine reason to be hopeful. I was just reading
>> UNESCO's Education for All 2010 report, and the expansion of the
>> university system throughout the industrializing world is
>> astounding. Per
>> capita they're still catching up to the US, EU and Japan, but the
>> absolute
>> size of the student population has mushroomed. The numbers are here:
>
>> http://slorgzilla.blogspot.com/2010/02/education-for-all.html
>> -- DRR
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> Wow, those numbers are amazing. Now I am perplexed. I was just
> reading
> someone who had done research in Mexico and was claiming a process of
> deschooling happening where young people would pass on higher ed
> because
> they knew their earning power was greater if they just migrated to
> the US
> and did manual labour or service work. This contradicts her
> findings and
> analysis. This also must make us rethink our understanding of
> neoliberalism
> and the 'race to the bottom', if one believed such things.
There was never any real evidence to support the "race to the bottom" thesis, was there? You can find all kinds of data to support polarization, but outside of Africa (yes, I know that's not a small exception), never a generalized immiseration.
Doug