Germans seek answers in Toronto schools

Think tank pays a visit to learn how to help kids of diverse backgrounds Be the first to comment on this article... Louise Brown Education Reporter Officials of a prestigious German think tank visited a Toronto grade school yesterday to see how schools here work to help children of all backgrounds – a new concept in Germany, where they recently stopped calling immigrants "guest workers." Representatives of the Bertelsmann Foundation, which recently awarded Toronto's public school board an international award for helping children of diverse backgrounds, dropped by Rockford Public School near Bathurst St. and Steeles Ave. W. yesterday to observe its free parenting centre and talk to teachers about how to help children of different backgrounds get along. Two-thirds of students at this school were born outside Canada, and 80 per... [read full story]