Older folks remember the Canada Dry ad campaign,
“Canada Dry is golden like liquor, its name sounds like a liquor name…but it’s not liquor.”
The sociology of education is the same, it makes drawings that look like graphs, it has a name that sounds like that of a science, but it's not a science.
A recent example was given to us by an article in the newspaper
Le Monde
taking up with complacency (and using an even more caricatural vocabulary, a sort of ideological sketch) the results of a note from the Institute of Public Policies congratulating the exceptional results obtained by the so-called Affelnet reform of the second year recruitment of public Parisian high schools.
It must be said that one of the authors of the note is the inspiration for the reform, the chairman of its monitoring committee, you are never better served than by yourself.
A little reminder is necessary for those who are not lucky enough to have a child in college in Paris...
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