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INFO THE POINT. Close study reveals that 12th grade science education textbooks are riddled with errors about energy.
By Geraldine Woessner
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LThis fact is documented by all international rankings: the French have a mediocre knowledge of science and their level continues to collapse. Published at the end of 2020, the 2019 results of the TIMSS study (the international reference assessment in maths and science) were cause for panic: French middle school students in the fourth year obtained, on average, the worst score of the countries of the European Union and the OECD (apart from Chile), a collapse confirmed by all national surveys since 2008, and which is affecting all strata of society, “advantaged” students included… How, weighed down by such shortcomings, young French will they be able to understand the challenges posed by the climate crisis and respond tomorrow to the societal choices it implies?
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