Sujet Anglais LV1 — Terminale — Métropole — Bac 2015

Document 1 SARAH E. GOODE IS THE NAME OF ONE OF the first African-American women ever to be granted a US Patent, in 1885, for a foldout bed that converted into a desk – a prescient object that would fit right into a modern-day Ikea Catalog. It’s also the name of a new high school on Chicago’s South Side that is redefining what it means to be educated in 5 the 21st century. Kids at the school, which launched a year and a half ago, aren’t called students but “innovators.” They receive a hardcore focus on STEM skills (that’s science, technology, engineering and math). And they take six years to graduate instead of the traditional four; the extra two years means they walk away with an associate’s degree on top of their high school diploma. 10 There’s one more thing they take with them: a job. Every student at Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy graduates with a promise of a $40,000-plus opportunity at IBM, the school’s corporate partner and a key developer of the curriculum. Programs like Sarah E. Goode – an approach known as Pathways in Technology Early College High School, or P-Tech for short – are attracting much attention. Two and a half 15 years in, the Brooklyn school that pioneered the approach has been visited by everyone from Obama and Harvard academics to Chinese officials. Its first class will graduate in 2018, though many will complete all the requirements before then. Right now about half of the juniors – none of whom were screened for ability and many of whom will be the first in their family to graduate from high school – are already 20 taking college-level math. It’s an impressive achievement in a city where only 64.7% of kids graduate from high school. Rashid Davis, the principal there, says the public-private partnership is invaluable: “It’s incredible how much further children can reach when industry is closer to them to help set the context for learning.” In November, President Obama earmarked $100 million in new grant funds for 25 schools like P-Tech to carry on their experiments in education. From time.com 15ANTEV1ME3 Page : 2/6 Document 2 Some professors can make a subject sing, and their courses are not just a credit but an event. What’s exciting now is that even universities that prize academic research are putting more emphasis on teaching. There is pressure to