Teacher Sandra Wiandt, right, and a volunteer teach students in a "welcome class” in Berlin, Germany. Many refu­gee children attend such classes. (Markus Schreiber/AP) Fadi and Fadiya started school ...
The morning before my oldest child’s first day of school in Berlin, I found myself wrestling with a roll of gold construction paper, a glue stick, and a creeping sense of panic. I was trying to ...
German lawmakers are considering extending the right to vote to all of its citizens — even those in diapers. Its legal voting age now is 18, or 16 in some areas. "Kinder voting" is designed to ...
I'm American but have been living in Germany for over a decade where I'm raising my three kids. My kids are trilingual, and Germany has strict naming laws. I had to take pronunciation, meanings of ...