Priority education is 40 years old. All actors in urban and rural areas had to mobilize, work in inter-degrees and in partnership to fight school failure. The complexity and diversity of this education policy with a social purpose is reflected in contributions based on local sources.

This dossier examines text commentary, defined either in a broad sense as a kind of metatextual discourse, which brings together different forms of writing about reading, or as a specifically standardised examination test, in different contexts. It considers what kind of reader these various exercises are likely to create.

Activism is often conceived of as a form of schooling per se, but what it teaches is hardly perceptible. The issues of activism and engagement have particularly captured the attention of sociologists of politics, but few studies are devoted to activist training.The aim of this dossier is to grasp the diversity of learning forms produced by activism

This issue is interesting to a didactic approach to the educational resources that science or technology teachers use or design. Three articles focus on the work that teachers do on and with resources and the perception they have of them.