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REFORM SCHOOL

IT IS POSSIBLE!

by Daniel Le Bret

and Caroline Werkoff-Leloup

Collection regeneration,

editions Michalon, 120 pages,

12 euros.

Wake up

JULES FERRY,

THEY HAVE BECOME CRAZY!

by Emmanuel Davidenkoff

Oh Editions, 225 pages,.

18.90 euro.

In 2007, it is promised, let's talk about school... Great absent from the previous election campaign, the education debate is likely, this time to occupy a place of choice. At least according to the promises of the candidates to the élyséen Chair. Among the actors and attentive observers of the system also electoral deadlines appear to have revived the desire to fuel a debate often private audacity and breathtaking. Or, less Orthodox, to strip the small scandals whose national education seems to be if customary and if keen readers.

Daniel Lebret and Caroline Werkoff-Leloup, is the first of these ambitions that dominates. To "clear the outline of a project that could re-enchanting school" and "reformulate the Republican Pact around the school for the next decades", the former trade union leader (FSU) and associate teacher (close to the PS) did not opted for the inventory to the Prévert, but concise proposals 30. Almost a program.

Concrete proposals

The authors stand a review of the current school system, which, to be classic, is not less dark democratization fails, teachers disoriented, medium-sized international performance. Before two elements which appear obvious: rarely innovation and research issues were published as important; school demographics appeared rarely as open to change. Must know what school it wants... Sensitivity to the left, the authors draw their inspiration in Northern Europe. Also recommend develop the individualised follow-up of students (20 of the courses in small groups), to ease the days of courses or to postpone compulsory schooling up to seventeen years, the time of purchase, a "common culture", without selection or orientation. In short, "reform school, it is possible," say. And, good news, it is not so expensive.

Demonstration by the absurd

In another journalist Emmanuel Davidenkoff tackles, surrounded by six teachers, an institution: school curricula, and their physical realization, the manuals. Regularly reformed, they did in addition, according to them, aberrations. Still more encyclopedic despite the decrease in the hours. A "patchwork without tail or head", say, more intended for teachers and parents or students. Better find laugh of inconsistencies identified by the authors who have spent through 60 works. A "soft triangle." "First second object further. A "hypothesis" different depending on whether English or mathematics. What to lose its latin more than a student. And a demonstration by the absurd, that to be sometimes excessive, was no less for virtue to examine on the function of the school and programs. What is their purpose when they curtailed their precision young teachers, there where their elders to call instructions "educational freedom" That are worth when the assessments give rise to small shameful arrangements over-rating of IBC and the patent who deceive neither teachers nor those who deplore "level which reduced" Has it not in these internecine struggles between lost experts a little student interest It is not certain that the "common base of knowledge and skills" implemented this re-entry will solve the problem. But it is true that the shipyards that it opens (teacher training, unique College, democratization...) are to the (UN) measurement of the mammoth.