OECD and schooling

Translation of today's post "L'OCSE e la scuola" on "Il deserto dei tartari 2.0".

OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) published in 2001 and then republished more recently a document that's quite interesting because it tries to describe the possible scenarios for the future of schooling.

The scenarios described are six, divided in three categories: "Status quo", "Re-schooling" and "De-schooling".

Obviously anyone is free to get his or her own idea about these. From a quick check, I think the de-schooling is more appreciated in the USA.

Personally I find myself more on the reschoolng lines, although I am aware that the real outcome will depend locally on many factors and will probably be a hybrid among the different scenarios

The Status quo model seems to me invariably the Italian sentence, among half reforms attempted by a government and punctually erased by the next one...     

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