“Every Youth a Start-up”
“Every Youth a Start-up”
Education and Training in Silicon Valley
This chapter examines the education and training of Latino youth within the local and national context, with particular emphasis on the emergent civic agenda around the digital divide in Silicon Valley. It considers the political implications and historical context of this regional “civilizing process” and its relation to a neoliberal politics of educational reform on the national scale by focusing on the production of two kinds of disciplined “subjects” in need of saving: at-risk youth and public educational and nonprofit social-service institutions. It also explores how the realities of the tech-bust era have turned disenfranchised young people, and many who provide services to them, into skeptics of neoliberal reform.
Keywords: education, training, Latino youth, digital divide, Silicon Valley, civilizing process, neoliberal politics, educational reform, at-risk youth, social-service institutions
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