I Une
école différente ? Pour une société
différente
? Qui n'en veut ?! I Des
écoles différentes ? Oui, mais ... pas trop |
|
L'heure
de la... It's time for ... Re-creation | Appel
pour des éts innovants et coopératifs |
I
Obligation
scolaire et liberté I | Une
école différente ? Pour une société
différente
? Qui n'en veut ?! I
Quelques
autres "rubriques", parmi beaucoup d'autres, toujours d'actualité
:
les rapports
parents-profs, la maternelle
à 2 ans, l'ennui
à l'école, les punitions
collectives, le téléphone
portable,
l'état des
toilettes,
le créationnisme...
BRITISH
WAY OF LIFE
Le "modèle" anglo-saxon, libéral ... et blairo-socialiste...
Beuark.
AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE... |
Royaume-Uni
: Commandos d'«experts»
dans 638 écoles
The Guardian - 25 février
2008
Le gouvernement britannique envisage d’envoyer des équipes d’experts dans les écoles publiques secondaires qui affichent des résultats en dessous de la moyenne nationale. Les autorités locales devront par ailleurs mettre en place avant l’été un plan d’action pour lutter contre l’échec scolaire constaté dans les 638 écoles publiques du pays qui n’ont pas réussi à améliorer les résultats de leurs élèves au GCSE au cours des quatre dernières années. Ces écoles sont menacées de fermeture ou de se fédérer sous la houlette d’une école voisine affichant de bons résultats. Pour le promoteur de ce plan, Ed Balls, Secrétaire d’Etat à l’enfance, à l’école et aux familles, si certaines écoles peuvent faire valoir des circonstances atténuantes (un nombre très important d’élèves issus de milieux sociaux défavorisés, par exemple !) rien ne doit cependant justifier l’échec d’une génération d’enfants.
Balls plans to send elite teaching teams into failing schools Ministers are working on plans to send teams of expert leaders into hundreds of struggling state secondaries as part of a concerted move to eliminate low-performers. Local authorities have been set a summer deadline to develop individual "action plans" setting out how they are going to turn around 638 low-performing state schools, the children's secretary, Ed Balls, has revealed. In an interview with the Guardian, Balls said that options for such schools included becoming an academy or a trust school, federating with a high-performing local school, or closing. A London scheme involving school leaders being sent in to help improve failing schools will also be promoted. They will include successful headteachers, deputies, and heads of department. "I'm expecting every local authority to have an action plan for those schools below 30% [A* to C at GCSE including English and maths] as well as the coasting schools. It will require every authority to play its role," he said. The tough target of 30%, set by the prime minister in the autumn, is important to ensure that educational failure among the poorest children is not being excused because of their disadvantaged backgrounds, he said. The list of low-performing schools is proving contentious among headteachers, who say that a raw target does not take into account the challenging circumstances they face in some of the poorest areas of the country. It includes many schools that are highly rated by the government's "value added" score, which rewards schools that improve results for the most challenging pupils. Five of the 10 worst-performing schools by GCSE results - lead by Parklands High, in Liverpool, where 1% of pupils get five good GCSEs including English and maths - score highly on the value added rating. Balls said the plans would focus on that 70% of the 638 which had failed to improve in the past four years. Analysis of school results by the Guardian reveals that all but 15 local authorities have at least one school with results below the 30% mark. Birmingham has more than 20 failing schools, as do local authorities with large numbers of grammar schools. There are more than 30 low-performing schools in Kent, which also has the highest number of grammar schools. Some 79 of the 638 are in Ofsted's "special measures" category and deemed failing. There are 14 schools that have fewer than 10% of pupils getting the required level of GCSEs, and 28 of the government's flagship academy schools are on the list. A further 85 of the schools have already been earmarked to become academies, with 63 to follow before 2010, Balls said. "In a very small number of cases it will require closures - 18 are so far being closed. We will do that where necessary - but it will be rare and extreme and in the minority," he said. Where schools are improving they would be left alone to do so, he said, insisting that not every school on the list should be considered "failing". "I understand very well that schools with a high number of children on free school meals and those with behavioural difficulties need extra support and help. But I don't accept there should be a link between poverty and educational attainment. A culture of excusing poor performing pupils on the basis of deprivation will let another generation of pupils fail." Thirty-five local authorities have been singled out for particular support from Whitehall, he added. The London Challenge scheme has seen schools in the capital become some of the fastest improving in the country, and is already being expanded to Manchester and the Black Country. It also involves schemes to help recruit and retain the best teachers. Local authority leaders have asked to be given more time to exercise the powers they have. Les Lawrence, chair of the children and young people's board at the Local Government Association, said: "We haven't had the powers to improve schools for long. We need time to make them work - not more pressure which creates a climate of failure. The other concern is the hidden hand of the schools commissioner. There is this attitude that if you become an academy or trust school you will become the Eton of the state sector overnight. There is no evidence to support that." John Dunford, of the Association of School and College Leaders, said: "I don't accept that the 638 schools are failing schools. The target focuses on raw results and doesn't take into account the challenging job these schools are doing." Steve Sinnott, of the National Union of Teachers, said: "Schools in the toughest circumstances quite simply cannot reach the raw results achieved by schools in the leafier suburbs." |
| Présentation
| SOMMAIRE
|
| Le
nouveau sirop-typhon : déplacements de populations ? chèque-éducation
? ou non-scolarisation ? |
| Pluralisme
scolaire et "éducation alternative" | Jaune
devant, marron derrière : du PQ pour le Q.I. |
| Le
lycée "expérimental" de Saint-Nazaire |
Le
collège-lycée "expérimental" de Caen-Hérouville|
| L'heure
de la... It's time for ... Re-creation | Freinet
dans (?) le système "éducatif" (?) |
| Changer
l'école | Des
écoles différentes ? Oui, mais ... pas trop !|
L'école
Vitruve |
| Colloque
Freinet à ... Londres | Des
écoles publiques "expérimentales" |
| 68
- 98 : les 30 P-l-eureuses | Et
l'horreur éducative ? |