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Marion Oury: "Very good grades are no longer decisive for access to the best Parisian high schools"

2022-05-24T18:24:13.391Z


TRIBUNE - The standardization of the level of Parisian public high schools is underway, under a deliberate policy of the Ministry of National Education, supported by studies that prove nothing, argues the academic.


Marion Oury is a lecturer in economics at Paris Dauphine-PSL.

Some have long been asking for “the end of level high schools” in the capital.

It is not done (destroy takes time) but in progress: the Paris Academy initiated last year, for the Affelnet procedure, which distributes middle school students in high schools, a reform whose ambition is to lower the level of the last good public establishments.

Stop “school segregation”, repeat the supporters of this policy.

A new ideal therefore, mysterious: to ensure “educational diversity”, that is to say to increase as much as possible the heterogeneity of school levels within each class.

How?

This is not easy, as good students are often "reluctant" to join bad high schools.

Hence the need to take them a little by the hand…

It is also the triumph of the false in a branch of economics known as “economics of education”.

Blind predictions for those who look at them closely but with perfect formal rigor.

It's the aristocracy of intox

Marion Oury

A trick has been found here.

Quite simple: divide the different Parisian colleges into three categories (“socially favored”, “intermediate”…

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Source: lefigaro

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