School stories have been the bread and butter of YA fiction since long before that category existed; learning skills and adulthood was a common theme in SF, even when the book was not an outright bildungsroman. Some random examples would be in early Heinlein, Flower's for Algernon, Brain Wave, Dune, Le Guin's 'Dispossessed' or 'Always Coming Home', early Vorkosigan Saga, much of Octavia Butler, Orson Scott Card. In modern YA fiction, if we take Hunger Games as a paradigm, school is the opposite of educational and is just a mechanism for indoctrination and industrial peonage, reflecting and magnifying some current educational trends but without positing any alternative. Jemisin's Broken Earth books just repeats this theme of education-as-enslavement with greater sophistication. Even Okarofor's Binti series, structured around a journey to university and back, is largely uninterested in relating what happens there. Ada Palmer's characters are all incredibly cultured and sophisticated, but they are all fully-formed when we meet them, and we never get to see how these prodigies are made.
I'm sure there are things I've missed that could be counter-examples, but the paucity of school stories and educational narratives in SF is marked seen alongside their dominance in fantasy: Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, Kingkiller chronicles. Closer to home for this blog, the Commonweal series. It's apparently more appealing to write narratives of education and formation with spellcasters than with tech and (with the exception of the Commonweal books) these fantasy examples are all nostalgic for elitist forms of education that have largely vanished. They're imaginative about all sorts of things, but not education itself.
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