France has one of the highest high school dropout rates in the world at 20%.
According to an NPR article, the distressing dropout rate has led French president Francois Hollande to call for what critics are characterizing as a dumbing down of the curriculum.
This strategy should sound familiar to Americans.
In response to dropouts and the presumed need to send every student to college, the curriculum in America’s secondary schools has been dramatically watered down in recent decades.
...Next, French reformers wish to present “European civilization through the lens of the slave trade and colonialism” rather than emphasize the ideas that created modern Europe – kind of like A.P. U.S. History, which goes light on the Founding Fathers and heavy on a critique of America’s past wrongs.
An overarching goal of the proposed reform, according to NPR, “is to make the heavy, French middle school curriculum more interesting and lively for students.”
So, France thinks education will be more effective if school is more entertaining? Americans: does this sound like déjà vu or what?!?...”
This strategy should sound familiar to Americans.
In response to dropouts and the presumed need to send every student to college, the curriculum in America’s secondary schools has been dramatically watered down in recent decades.
An overarching goal of the proposed reform, according to NPR, “is to make the heavy, French middle school curriculum more interesting and lively for students.”
So, France thinks education will be more effective if school is more entertaining? Americans: does this sound like déjà vu or what?!?...”
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