Call to scrap "discriminatory" secondary school streaming

Primary schools are continuing to discriminate against children from migrant backgrounds when deciding what level of secondary school they should go to, an education watchdog has said. Research by Kennisplatform Inclusief Samenwerken (KIS), which campaigns for equality in education, said parents had virtually no opportunity to challenge teachers’ recommendations. Being placed in a lower stream in the stratified Dutch system could hold back children’s development by years and severely damage their self-esteem, KIS researcher Suzan de Winter-Koçak told Nu.nl. “Teachers...