Sweden: 'Immigrant kids need more schooling'

Sweden: 'Immigrant kids need more schooling'

Via the Local:

The Swedish government has revealed a new directive aimed at improving immigrant students� education and integration into Sweden, revolving around longer compulsory schooling and a shift in lesson priorities.

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Key issues regarding these foreign students, who make up nine percent of Sweden�s primary school student population, revolved around how to integrate the children and raise the quality of their education by considering lesson priorities and additional compulsory schooling.

�For recently arrived children, schooling is the key to integration. Students today are older when they come to Sweden. It puts greater demands on the Swedish schools that receive them,� wrote the government in the statement.

Only 63 percent of the foreign-born students passed their final high school exams in 2010, a trend the government indicated is worsening. 

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