TRIBUNE – While France is experiencing a historic collapse in the Pisa report, the link between immigration and the school crisis is never questioned, notes the essayist and teacher Joachim Le Floch-Imad, who shows, with supporting figures, how much this phenomenon aggravates the difficulties of National Education.
Close to Jean-Pierre Chevènement, Joachim Le Floch-Imad is a professor of general culture in higher education and an essayist. He has just published “ Tolstoy. A philosophical life » (Éditions du Cerf, 2023).
In 1989, in THE level risesChristian Baudelot and Roger Establet proposed to “ refute an old idea concerning the supposed decadence of our school “. The educational decline of France was considered absurd and the notion of level impossible to define. For decades, this culture of denial characterized most of the discourse within National Education. The publication of evaluations common to all colleges like the historic collapse of our country in the Pisa ranking published this week have since contributed to breaking a certain number of dikes. And the current minister now has no other choice but to appeal to “a shock of knowledge” and ambitious measures to “ raise the level of the school » And “ restore authority…