The Minister of Education conceded that “evolve” the scientific teaching of common core. The specialty, deemed difficult, is only preserved by 37% of the students in terminal – mostly boys from favored backgrounds.
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Is the black school girls also became that of Jean-Michel blanquer? While teacher and researchers’ associations have again alerted, on January 22, on the decline in the number of hours of mathematics taught in high school, the Minister of National Education conceded on February 6 on CNEWS , that should be” evolving “the scientific teaching of a common trunk provided by the reform to increase the share of mathematics. One-third of the program of this hybrid education between SVT, Mathematics and Physical Sciences is now devoted to the Discipline – with only 6% of teachers who are responsible, in fact, to teach it.
Mathematics, former Queen Discipline of the S sector, are becoming a political subject, two months from the presidential election deadline. In question, in addition to the decrease in the total number of hours, the disturbing inequities between the choices of high school students: the students who keep the maths in first and end are mostly boys (58%), from the very favored social categories (46 %). The specialty has been thought to train true “mathemes” for scientific studies, but they are too few: only 37% of students pursue the specialty in the terminal, even if two-thirds of those who abandon will continue teaching, Renowned less “pushed”, from the “complementary mathematics” option.
Readjust the reform
Valérie Pécresse, the candidate the Republicans, seized the subject on January 18, denouncing the decline in the number of mathematician students as a “perverse effect” of high school reform. The Medef also mixed: when presenting the proposals for the presidential election, its president, Geoffroy Roux of Bézieux, worried about the weakening of the level of students and the decline in the number of classes in This discipline. “It takes a recursion of our country around scientific education,” said former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, Sunday, at a round table dedicated to science, where the majority frameworks were present.
In full operation “rebalancing” after a bad political and media pass on the sanitary front, the Minister of Education, Jean-Michel Blanquer, therefore decided to let go. Because it is a question of readjustment, even marginally, the reform of the high school and the bac – or one of the main achievements of the five-year school. Fragilized in terms of crisis management, Mr. Blanquer might want to avoid another front can open, who would weaken the school’s assessment shortly before the campaign of President Macron.
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