here he uses mexico as his illustrative model many of you may be too young to remember that mexico used to be a major US exporter in the 90s. recall that this is not the current state of Mexico. rather its basically a failed state
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apparently the vocational high school thing was a 2002 initiative that actually made it into provincial policy goaling very excited to see how Campbell's Law played outpic.twitter.com/YntuTKxoVv
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honestly though he's ticking through problems with the high schools (no one is learning anything, students are smoking in class, whatever) and comparing this to public high schools in a typical American city and im mostly thinking "looks like china has finally made it"
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it is disappointing to me that the authors are allegedly economists and discussing the topic of education and have not mentioned Spence even once
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more anecdotes. apparently vocational majors are determined by policymakers rather than potential employers. this has led to things like students majoring in abacus use and repairing telephone booths and VCRs
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overall im coming away suspecting that chinas vocational schools are indeed completely worthless as educational institutions but nb it probably wouldnt have taken much for me to believe this
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They may be modelled after germanys Berufsschulen in the Curriculum, but if they have a dorm and a campus, they are a different kind of animal in practice
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