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Ces derniers mois, plusieurs cantons suisses ont proposé ou adopté l’interdiction du port du voile à l’école. Mais ces mesures sont loin de faire consensus, comme le montrent les discussions enflammées relayées par les journaux du pays.

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The Chicago Sun-Times reports: When Elgin Community College hired Flock Safety to install six surveillance cameras in April 2025, President Peggy Heinrich thought they would "enhance the safety and security of students...." They were supposed to help locate stolen cars and missing people. But Heinrich started to wonder if the cameras were actually making students less safe after seeing news reports that data captured by Flock cameras in Illinois had been shared with U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Then in September 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained an Elgin Community College student in a campus parking lot. More than half of students at the far west suburban Chicago campus identify as Latino. Heinrich said enrollment dipped. Students were afraid to come to class. College officials decided the cameras had to go... College officials asked Flock to remove the surveillance cameras "out of an abundance of caution for our students," Heinrich said. But getting the cameras taken down was not as simple as it sounds, especially because Flock retains ownership of the company's equipment.... Surveillance experts say the company is financially incentivized to have as many cameras gathering data as possible even in places that no longer want them, because potential clients are looking for the surveillance network with the greatest reach.... Elgin Community College staff notified Flock in October 2025 that they wanted to cancel their contract and have the cameras taken down. Within a day, Heinrich said, Flock rejected the request and refused to uninstall the equipment on the basis that the company had not breached their agreement. College officials reached out again in December 2025 and said they would pay for the remaining five months of the contract — they just wanted the cameras taken down. "We never received a response back from Flock," Heinrich said. That's when things got weird. Heinrich said Elgin Community College staff began to cover the cameras using black trash bags and zip ties so that they would not be able to capture footage. But workers in an unmarked vehicle, which Heinrich assumed belonged to Flock, repeatedly removed the coverings... This strange dance continued, Heinrich said, until Elgin Community College's contract with Flock expired in April this year and the company uninstalled the cameras for good.

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Des dizaines de milliers d’enseignants ont lancé une grève du zèle, le 5 octobre, en compagnie d’autres métiers du service public, avant une journée de mobilisation totale, le 14 octobre, pour réclamer de meilleurs salaires.

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Les lycéens bloquent leurs établissements pour réclamer des professeurs, des horaires plus cohérents et des classes moins chargées. Pourtant, contrairement aux idées reçues, l’école ne manque pas d’argent. Mais souvent, il ne finance plus ni les élèves ni les enseignants.L’article Crise lycéenne : l’argent de l’école part à la retraite est apparu en premier sur Les Électrons Libres.

Au lendemain d’un « Acte III » sous haute tension, la France retient son souffle en ce 7 octobre. Depuis la mi-septembre et les premiers incidents au lycée Saint-Exupéry de Créteil, la colère a pris une ampleur nationale spectaculaire. Le pays vit au rythme de centaines de blocus, de heurts parfois très violents avec les forces de l’ordre, jusqu’au drame survenu avant-hier à Lens, où un lycéen a perdu sa main.L’article Contestation lycéenne : une longue tradition est apparu en premier sur Les Électrons Libres.

Longtime Slashdot submitter theodp writes: GeekWire reports that the University of Washington has moved its Global Innovation Exchange {GIX) program to Microsoft's campus in a rent-free deal (UW News release). GIX, an institute supporting tech leaders that offers an MS in Technology Innovation, is the first UW program to set up full-time operations at Microsoft, whose headquarters are just across Lake Washington from the university's main campus. Microsoft provided a $42 million in-kind donation to establish the embedded facility; the UW is leasing the new 48,500-square-foot GIX space in Microsoft's Building 92 rent-free. GIX debuted in 2015 as a partnership of the UW and China's Tsinghua University and received $70 million in Microsoft support at the now-abandoned GIX location in Bellevue (the Steve Ballmer Building), although indications are that a long-term arrangement did not come together as intended. In a Thursday LinkedIn post, Microsoft President Brad Smith wrote: "Last night we opened a door unlike any other. At the heart of Microsoft's campus, step into the new home of the UW's Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) and you cross from Microsoft into the University of Washington. No one has ever put a great research university and a leading technology company under the same roof quite like this. As far as I know, no one has even tried. The timing matters. Artificial intelligence is advancing fast. The question is whether the people building it understand the world it's changing. This calls for a new style of education and leadership. We need leaders who understand the technology deeply and see things through other people's eyes. Leaders who learn by collaborating on real projects with people from different countries and disciplines. That's what GIX is built for. Students will learn from faculty across the UW, take classes taught by Microsoft employees, and be mentored by people from across our industry here in the Pacific Northwest." Interestingly, Smith's contention that UW GIX students will benefit from a 'new style' of Microsoft and industry-influenced education sounds a lot like Smith's contention that K-12 school children are better off thanks to a new style of Microsoft and industry-influenced education. In an interview last month, Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools author Natasha Singer told NPR (podcast, transcript), "For my book, I spoke to Brad Smith, who's the president of Microsoft, and he has been one of the leaders in the tech industry pushing for [K-12] computer science [and now AI literacy] in schools. [...] And Brad Smith said, philanthropy in the private sector is doing this work because public schools have failed to do what they were supposed to do. And his view is that public schools should be teaching modern subjects like computer science, and they were not equipped to do it fast enough and the tech industry stepped in to help. And is it better than if schools were able to do this themselves? He said, no, but it's certainly better than nothing. And he said to me, you know, think about where we would be on computer science if the tech industry hadn't stepped up. [...] Well, I've been having this conversation with him for 10 years, and when we started having it 10 years ago, I said to him, I get that, but when big tech companies put their finger on the scale, it tips education in certain ways that not only favor the tech industry but can obscure equally or more important things." So, is "The University of Washington at Microsoft" a good or bad idea?

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Pleurnicher sur le classement PISA, mais défoncer la gueule des lycéens qui demandent juste des conditions d'étude décentes.
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Dans “The Japan Times”, des linguistes expliquent pourquoi le plaisir, les livres et les liens sociaux sont bien plus efficaces que la contrainte dans l’éducation d’enfants bilingues. Des conclusions approuvées par “Psychology Today”.

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Des lettres à détruire, des boss à affronter et un clavier à apprivoiser : avec Fort-Dactylo, Nicolas Drolo veut rendre l’apprentissage de la frappe plus ludique. Un jeu gratuit conçu avec son fils, à partir de ses difficultés à l’école.

On academic mentoring platform Nova Learning, Computer Science and AI, "once the dominant choice among students... is losing ground fast, while Engineering has nearly doubled its share." It's a small survey, but "The steepest proportional decline is in Software & Data Science, the most traditional 'learn to code' pathway, which lost 44% of its 2025 share. AI saw the largest absolute drop of any single subject in the survey, down 6.2 points. "The category did not decline uniformly. Students moved away fastest from the pathway most associated with entry-level software work, while the more applied and human-facing subfields held their ground better." Slashdot reader BrianFagioli writes: Nova Learning says the share of surveyed middle and high school students naming Computer Science and AI as their primary academic interest fell from 42.3 percent in 2025 to 27.9 percent in 2026, while Engineering rose from 11.9 percent to 23 percent. The biggest gains came from Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering... [B]roader enrollment data points in the same direction. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported declines in Computer and Information Science enrollment at four year institutions, even as Engineering grew. AI coding tools are not proven to be the cause, but as software development changes and AI handles more coding tasks, students may be starting to rethink what a future in technology should look like. [Undergraduate enrollment in CS programs at four-year institutions fell 8.1%, to approximately 606,000 students.]

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Fidji Simo, entrepreneuse française et ancienne patronne des applications d’OpenAI, vient d’inscrire sa fille à Alpha School. Ce réseau américain d’écoles privées promet de concentrer les matières fondamentales en seulement deux heures par jour, notamment grâce à l'IA.

Tandis que les grandes destinations anglophones ferment leurs portes, les universités d’Asie attirent de plus en plus d’étudiants internationaux. Une recomposition mondiale de la mobilité étudiante est en cours, explique le “Times Higher Education”.

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"Turns out, Silicon Valley isn't especially altruistic," writes the nonprofit education news site The 74. They're reading a new book promising "the inside story of how Big Tech catalyzed, co-opted, and ultimately came to capture computer science and AI education in America". Written by New York Times business reporter Natasha Singer, Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools tells "the story of the nonprofit Code.org and its charismatic, Harvard-educated leader, Hadi Partovi," according to their review: Thirteen years ago, Partovi... delivered a worrying message: Kids who didn't learn to write code would be left behind. And the long-term success of the United States economy depended on training these students to fill a million open tech jobs.... Fast-forward to 2026, and now we're dealing with AI, and tech is reading from a similar playbook. Asked by The74's Greg Toppo, "Does this moment seem different to you?", Singer replies, "This moment is different, but also similar. "We are in a moment in society where a lot of people have increased distrust of these huge tech companies, and we see a wave of parents pushing back against tech in schools. But we also see waves of people pushing back against Flock cameras, against data centers, that there's this feeling that tech has taken so much, and that people feel like they have lost control — that tech is being enacted on them... And parents are worried about the effects of unfettered tech access and kids' compulsive use of social media and phones, and so there's a different climate. And yet there seems to be a disconnect in some ways with AI because you see that Microsoft and OpenAI and Anthropic and Google are all competing to get their AI tools into schools, and you see school districts across the country say "We've partnered with OpenAI." "We are a ChatGPT Pioneer School," or "We've partnered with Microsoft, and we're going to use 10,000 licenses of CoPilot." It's amazing to me. We have had these cycles of tech in schools where there are all these promises about the latest tech, laptops, learning apps, massive open online courses, virtual reality, big data's going to revolutionize schools and like democratize access to education for kids and get them these great career skills, and we keep having these cycles. My concern is that we don't learn anything. One of the reasons I wrote this book is because it feels like we have collective amnesia. Now we're in the sixth or eighth cycle of this — and shouldn't we be asking questions about the push for AI in schools, based on what we've learned about the push for all the other things that came before? Two Slashdot posts are cited in the book, both submitted by long-time Slashdot reader theodp (Slashdot UID #442,580), who even gets a shout-out in the book's "Acknowledgements" section (along with consumer advocate Ralph Nader). Ironically, one member of Amazon's "Vine" program received a free copy of the book in exchange for a review — and apparently misunderstood its topic, writing that it made coding "feel approachable and even fun... [T]his is exactly the kind of book that could help a child become interested in technology without feeling overwhelmed by it. I particularly liked the way it encourages kids to be curious, experiment, and solve problems on their own. I would definitely recommend Coding Kids to parents, grandparents, or teachers looking for a good introduction to coding..."

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Des élèves sans affectation, une pénurie d’enseignants et des résultats revenus vingt ans en arrière. Longtemps érigé en modèle pour ses progrès spectaculaires, le système scolaire portugais accumule désormais les signes de crise, constate la presse locale.

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Il manque des profs à chaque rentrée.
L'état : Supprime 3000 postes de profs.

Et après ça pleure sur les résultats de PISA. 🤷‍♂️
Peut-être que si on veut une bonne éducation il faut y mettre les moyens ?
(Je veux dire: De VRAIS moyens, pas des conneries du genre SNU ou l'uniforme.)
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La rentrée est passée, les cartables ont retrouvé leur place dans l'entrée et les bonnes habitudes vont progressivement reprendre. Mais cette routine de l'année scolaire a parfois du bon, surtout quand le week-end arrive : quelques épisodes de Bob l'éponge ou une partie de Mario Kart en récompense des efforts fournis dans la semaine. Mais plutôt que de laisser les enfants jouer seuls à leurs jeux, pourquoi ne pas profiter de ce moment pour leur faire découvrir, en famille, tout ce que le jeu vidéo peut avoir à offrir ?

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Plusieurs dizaines d’enseignants du comté de Leibo, dans le sud-ouest de la Chine, ont été forcés de poser pour une photo de groupe devant un écran géant qui affichait le mot “honte” au centre, à cause des mauvais résultats de leurs élèves. C’est cette photo qui est “une honte”, dénonce la presse chinoise.

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Le classement PISA des élèves français est mauvais, et bien sûr - sans aucune surprise - c'est la faute aux vilains écrans.
Niveau zéro de la réflexion, aucune mise en perspective des réformes successives des différents ministres (ni de questionnement sur la pertinence des uniformes à l'école ou du SNU), ni du manque de profs à chaque rentrée, ni des *raisons* du manque de profs, ni de la violence des problèmes sociaux qui ont directement un impact sur la scolarité, etc.
Et même derrière toutes cette merde et absence de réflexion, des propositions encore plus démago et débiles (comme la maternelle dès 1 an).
Le journalisme est mort.

EDIT: https://mastodon.social/@AllanBarte/117241290036494356
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