On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 04:55:21PM -0400, Steve Kinney wrote:
On 11/2/18 4:48 PM, Steve Kinney wrote:
Recommended reading, any and everything by this guy:
Postscript: Here's a complete copy of Against School, Gatto's most influential essay.
Ack on Gatto! Great reading! Edummacation has people going places: College Grads Vs High School Dropouts: A Disturbing Observation https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-02/college-grads-vs-high-school-dropo... … Extending and extrapolating this trend suggests that some time over the next two decades, the labor force participation rate of high school dropouts in the US labor pool may be the same, if not higher, than that of college grads. And while one can debate what is causing this troubling compression, the implications for future US productivity should the US labor force become increasing saturated with minimally skilled workers at the expense of qualified college grads, is rather dire. Then again, Bloomberg has yet to start tracking the labor force participation rate of robots: something tells us that the growth rate in this category will soon be off the charts.