I Obligation
scolaire et liberté I Des
écoles différentes ? Oui, mais ... pas trop ! Appel
pour des éts innovants et coopératifs |
| Une
école différente ? Pour une société
différente
? Qui n'en veut ?! | L'heure
de la... It's time for ... Re-creation |
LES "MODÈLES"
ANGLO-SAXONS :
(libertés, justice,
santé, système scolaire, éducatif, marché de
l'éducation, homeschooling ... aux USA et en Angleterre)
AMERICAN
WAY OF LIFE
BRITISH
WAY OF LIFE
Les
16-18 ans en France et en Europe
Entre 16 et 18 ans, les jeunes dépourvus
de diplôme et qui ne sont plus en formation
voient leur insertion immédiate
et future durablement compromise.
25
000 élèves anglais, à partir de 14 ans, "disparaissent"
chaque année du système scolaire :
"on ne sait pas exactement
où ils sont".
AMERICAN
WAY OF LIFE
PLUS
DE PRISONNIERS AUX ÉTATS UNIS QU'EN CHINE
BRITISH WAY OF LIFE Le "modèle" anglo-saxon, libéral ... et blairo-socialiste...
FRANCE
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Décrochage
scolaire
USA - Collèges et lycées en Californie : image from
mario zucca illustration’s site at flickr.com/creativecommons
Près d'un "lycéen" sur 4 - sur environ 6 millions - décroche, et quitte le collège ou le lycée entre 15 et 18 ans (entre le grade 9 et le grade 12). Et pour Los Angeles, le score est de 1/3. Tel est le résultat de l'analyse la plus précise jamais réalisée jusqu'ici à partir des données 2006-2007, et publiée le 7 juillet 2008 par le Département Education de Californie. "Utilizing the old system
in the 2005-06 school year,
the Department of Education had estimated that only about 13 percent of students had dropped out."
Depuis deux ans, chaque élève de l'école publique californienne s'est vu attribuer son propre code d'identification (SSID : "Statewide Student IDentifiers") afin de pouvoir être "tracé" : si l'un d'entre eux quitte un établissement de Los Angeles et est inscrit le mois suivant dans un autre à San Francisco, par exemple, il n'est pas considéré comme "décrocheur". 24,2% : c'est le pourcentage correspondant aux quatre classes de la "high school" (9ème à 12ème grade). Mais les décrochages commencent dès le 7ème grade ("middle school" : collège, env. 13 ans) : cf tableau ci-dessus, et liens directs ci-dessous. Ces statistiques mettent également en relief, une fois de plus, le fossé séparant les groupes ethniques en matière de scolarité. Les afro-américains sont les plus précoces, et les plus nombreux (36%) à décrocher; suivis par les "latinos" (24%). Tableaux des % de décrocheurs :
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"/.../the
dropout problem is a cloud over all of California
"Le problème du décrochage est
un nuage sur toute la Californie
that threatens our civic and economic future." qui menace notre avenir civique et économique." Nearly 1 in 4 of state's students drop out By Neil Gonzales - San
Mateo County Times - 07/16/2008
Nearly one in four of the state's approximate 6 million students drop out of school, according to the most accurate-ever analysis of dropout data released Wednesday by the state Department of Education. The four-year derived dropout rate, based on the 2006-07 school year, is an estimated 24.2 percent. More than 67 percent of the state's public school eligible students graduated and 8 percent of students — such as those who seek high-school equivalency diplomas — are considered neither dropouts nor graduates. San Mateo County fared better with a 15.6 percent dropout rate. The high dropout rates in the state report Wednesday didn't surprise Cabrillo Unified School District Superintendent Robert Gaskill in Half Moon Bay. Educators have long suspected the dropout numbers reported in years
past were actually higher, Gaskill said.
While the larger figures are not totally a shock, Gaskill said, "absolutely it is a point of concern. There was a point in time when the completion of high school guaranteed some success. That's not enough anymore." Nearly one in four California high school students will abandon their education, although San Mateo County youth are less likely to do so, according to the new preliminary data from the state Department of Education. About 24 percent of the state's students dropped out while 8.2 percent completed or withdrew from classes and are considered neither dropouts nor graduates, such as those who transferred to private campuses, left California or earned a high-school equivalency diplomas, according to calculations based on the 2006-07 academic year. Cabrillo Unified mirrored the county's rate.
Elsewhere, the community-based Built to Last project aims to increase graduation rates of students who go to the Sequoia Union High School District from struggling Ravenswood district campuses in East Palo Alto and eastern Menlo Park. "The initiative provides mentors and tutors to those entering Sequoia," said Ravenswood board Vice President Larry Moody. The project has about 400 youth who attended Ravenswood schools, which largely serve underprivileged, minority students. Another effort has teamed up Ravenswood eighth-grade teachers with Sequoia freshman instructors in math and English-language arts "so we can create a smoother transition for students going from middle school to high school," Moody said. Ravenswood had a 37.5 percent dropout rate, but that came from its lone campus serving ninth- to 12th-graders — the small East Palo Alto Academy charter. San Mateo Union High, generally enjoying better resources than other districts, boasted the lowest dropout rate in the county with 6.4 percent. Corresponding with other state reports on student performance, the dropout data showed achievement gaps in which certain ethnic groups continue to lag behind their peers. The county's African-American students, for instance, struggled with a 36 percent dropout rate and Latinos had a 24 percent dropout rate. In contrast, Caucasians had a 10 percent dropout rate and Asians had only a 5 percent dropout rate. Moody blames much of that disparity on inadequate funding from the state. "Small communities of color are really challenged with how to distribute resources in a way that supports all the needs of students," he said. In the past, the state determined dropout rates by relying on methods
that at best resulted in educated guesses.
State officials say they now have far more accurate and detailed information about the whereabouts of children using a new system in which every student is given a unique but anonymous identification number. This allows a school to learn if a student has successfully transferred to another campus, gone to home schooling, moved to another country, truly dropped out or died, among other things. The truer dropout picture has been a wake-up call for education leaders.
Gaskill appreciates the new system and how it can benefit schools.
Cabrillo Unified could develop "much more structured exit procedures,"
he said.
Tracking students does bring additional work to schools, Gaskill said, "but it's an important tool. It's one that schools can't blink at and, hopefully, it will lead to lower dropout rates." To view the full report :
New dropout rates are more accurate, but not pretty By Katy Murphy - Contra
Costa Times - Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
You’ve heard me gripe about all of the dropout rate calculations and projections for Oakland’s public schools. Well, the state department of education has finally broken out its newfangled student tracking system and released some (supposedly) accurate, estimate-free dropout data for the 2006-07 school year! Two years ago, California assigned every public school student a unique state ID number in order to track their progress, regardless of where in the state they moved. If a student vanishes from Oakland High School, for example, and turns up in Los Angeles Unified a month later, that student will no longer be counted as a dropout. While admittedly exciting on a wonky, statistical level — oh, the information! — the state’s preliminary data present a very sobering picture. If it’s as accurate as they say, it means that 11 percent of Oakland’s high school kids quit school during the 2006-07 year alone. Researchers say that would make for a 37.4 percent dropout rate in Oakland over four years. And, unlike other researchers’ estimates, that doesn’t even count students who are enrolled in adult schools or earning their GEDs. (There is only one year’s worth of detailed student data so far, so the 37.4 percent four-year rate is, alas, another estimate.) What also caught my attention was the huge difference in rates reported in the old (and erratic) dropout reporting system in 2005-06, and the new system. You can see for yourself on my little spreadsheet here. I highlighted some of the schools with the largest swings from 2005-06 to 2006-07. (Note: Obviously, the spreadsheet doesn’t compare apples to apples. I seriously doubt the dropout problem changed that dramatically from year to year. I’m only noting the sharp percentage point differences that went along with the more accurate data.) Oh, and here is an interesting table that shows some 20 reasons that students left a particular school, from going private to failing the high school exit exam.
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Présentation
| SOMMAIRE
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| 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 ? |