Germany refugees
There are about 400,000 refugee kids in Germany. Educating them is a ‘national task.’
Can Germany’s education system meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of refugee children? Some educators say there’s a strategy in place. Others say there’s not enough support or training and that the decentralized system is unprepared for what’s become a “national task.”
Worried about its future, this former East German city recruited Syrian refugees
Compared to the rest of Germany, the economy in the former East Germany has struggled. In the small village of Golzow, the population had shrunk to the point where authorities were considering closing the village’s only elementary school. That’s when the town mayor invited Syrian refugee families to move in.