Delahaye, Jean-Paul <br/><br/>
The Comprehensive School: A typical example of the difficulty in governing education 

 -  2007.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The article aims to determine to what extent the analysis of the difficult management of educational policies may help identify the hurdles on the way to a real democratization of educational achievements. A few examples taken from the history of comprehensive schools highlight major hurdles and show that the comprehensive school may be used as a sort of magnifying glass of the successes as well as the difficulties of school management.