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listen and read: School: the pitfalls of competition Understanding the decline of the French school

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Interview by Emmanuel Sylvain Broccolichi Davidenkoff (7'44 "), FRANCE INFO - The way to school, September 8, 2010

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School: the pitfalls of competition
Understanding the decline of the French school
Chroukri BEN AYED
Sylvain Broccolichi
Daniele TRANCART
Collection: Free Papers
Discovery
2010




Presentation Editor
Still more students in check, still more demoralized teachers and parents worried about the future of their children. Still more awards to institutions that sow doubt and fueling frustrations. Is that really the choice of school that can come salvation, as suggested by the recent easing of the school map? Is it true that increasing competition between institutions, it creates a challenge that encourages higher student performance?
The answer is no: it shows that this work based on a large-scale study that combines at an unprecedented historical approach, statistical comparisons and long-term investigations at different sites (which restore the speech of teachers, parents and students). Wherever competition accelerates the disparity between institutions, beginning with the Paris region, the difficulties of students are increasing, and not only in the "ghettos". Their schooling is indeed disrupted by a series of disturbances and destabilization associated with the obsession with rankings and zapping school. Conversely, the best results occur where lasting cooperation promote educational continuities and consistent practices. Thanks also to an international perspective, this book helps understand how the development of competition and lack of political regulation contributed to the decline of French school.




Choukri Ben Ayed is a sociologist and professor at the University of Limoges, a researcher at Grescoe. Sylvain
Broccolichi is a sociologist and lecturer at the University of Artois, a researcher at the laboratory RECIFE. Daniele
Tran, statistician, is a lecturer at the University of Rouen, a researcher on secondment at the Centre for Study of Employment.