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FRANCE: 130,000 high school students protest

23 March 2005

More than 130,000 high school students walked out of school to join March 8 rallies protesting a new law restructuring schools. The bill cut the number of subjects that schools guarantee to fund to, in effect, reading, writing, calculating and using a computer. Under pressure from mass protest, the government withdrew a plan to incorporate some progressive assessment alongside external exam assessment.

From Green Left Weekly, March 23, 2005.
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