"Knowledge Clash" Initiative: Enhancing French Education through Targeted Reforms and Support Measures for 2024-2025

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[...] Preparation for the second year for students in difficulty with the Decree of 16 March 2024 relating to the implementation, for the 2024-2025 school year, of a pilot phase of the introduction of a preparatory cycle to the second year. In each department, there must be a high school with a preparatory class. This is for students who have not obtained the DNB. The preparatory class for the second year with Decree of 16 March 2024 relating to the organization and class hours of the preparatory class for the second year for the pilot phase for the 2024-2025 school year. This is a non-renewable year. It aims to increase knowledge of the common core. IV. [...]

[...] While the groups of needs allow teachers to no longer limit themselves to identifying the global level but to pinpoint the temporary difficulties of the students. C. The ministerial responses The Minister Belloubet defended herself against wanting to implement a form of social segregation. It's differentiated pedagogy. VI. CPE: Professional Practices to Adapt With the multiplication of groups, the CPE will have to adapt differently for the follow-up of students. The CPE will have to engage more in citizenship education. Notably by valuing instances of participation. [...]

[...] Knowledge Clash: Raising the Level of Our School - Ministry of National Education and Youth (2023) - Ongoing Projects Ongoing projects. "Knowledge Clash: Raising the Level of Our School" The measures around the knowledge clash aim to respond to a finding. The inégalités scolaires are deepening. I. Better supporting teachers to lead the battle of knowledge The objectives are as follows: - Progressing in fundamental knowledge in mathematics and French - Reorganize the common core around disciplinary and psychosocial skills - Strengthen general culture What was planned for the back to school 2024 where math programs will address fractions earlier. [...]

[...] Concerns of the different actors of Education The concerns are that the internship opportunities for second-year students are not the same for students depending on their neighborhoods and high schools. Thus, the implementation of groups based on the means of the establishment could produce a differentiated and unequal order for the students. Furthermore, the disappearance of the class group in college with the implementation of 'groups' could emphasize the personalization of the student's course at the expense of the common and collective. Similarly, for the high school with specialties. Or, the class is the basic cell of social integration (Ferdinand Buisson). The class group allows mutual aid. B. [...]

[...] An 8am to 6pm welcome will be held in REP and REP+ colleges offering activities (cultural, sports, educational . To avoid students being left alone at home. B. At the high school In the vocational path, a reinforcement of maths, fr and history lessons is being considered. The introduction of AI, in line with media and information education, is entering a few establishments to later enter the techno program (cycle 4). III. Raise the level of expectation and ambition This Shock of Knowledge wants to improve the results so is linked to the evaluation. [...]