"Why secondary education continues to deteriorate dramatically"

Despite this chaotic year, some rituals seem immutable, including the philosophy test which today opens the baccalaureate ball for hundreds of thousands of students.

But what is really left of the bac?

Let us say it: this national diploma is today a dead star;

and this situation is only a symptom of the silent but very real collapse affecting the education system.

To discover

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For a long time now, what still constitutes the first university degree has been gradually discredited by a double evolution: the project to bring 80% of an age group to the bac has been pursued steadily since 1985 - until then , only three young French people out of ten obtained this diploma.

But, at the same time, the general level of French students kept falling, as all international studies attest today: the latest Timms survey showed that France was ranked last in Europe for the teaching of mathematics.

These major gaps in transmission

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