L'UFEO est à la fois un colloque annuel et un lieu de rencontre pour les élus, acteurs de terrain, décideurs publics, monde associatif, responsables syndicaux, chercheurs, universitaires et étudiants. Elle propose un lieu ouvert d'échange et de réflexion pour les acteurs de la relation formation-emploi.
L'agence est partenaire de l'Université de la Formation, de l'Education et de l'Orientation.
Les principaux thèmes abordés :
If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person - A manifesto
By Allison Benedikt. You are a bad person if you send your children to private school. Not bad like murderer bad—but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation’s-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what’s-best-for-your-kid bad. So, pretty bad.
I am not an education policy wonk: I’m just judgmental. But it seems to me that if every single parent sent every single child to public school, public schools would improve. This would not happen immediately. It could take generations. Your children and grandchildren might get mediocre educations in the meantime, but it will be worth it, for the eventual common good. (Yes, rich people might cluster. But rich people will always find a way to game the system: That shouldn’t be an argument against an all-in approach to public education any more than it is a case against single-payer health care.) Read more...



