Photo: DPAThe care of preschool children in Germany is steadily improving, but only one state is hitting recommended standards for the teacher-to-child ratio, a new study finds. Similarly in Kindergartens, a preschool teacher was caring for an average of 9.2 children, an improvement from 9.8 in 2012. Baden-Württemberg was found to have the best preschool care of the sixteen German states. The northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was worst for Kindergarten care - every preschool teacher there had to keep an eye on 13.7 children. “At the moment the educational chances of children in Germany are largely dependant on where they happen to be born,” said Jörg Dräger, president of the Bertelsmann Foundation.

Source: The Local August 28, 2017 09:45 UTC