The OECD Review of Migrant Education was launched to help policy makers to design and implement migrant education policy successfully in their countries. The OECD reviews provide solid facts about access, participation and student performance of immigrant students compared to their native peers and identify a set of policy options based on evidence of what works and examples of experience 2009-2010, from Austria, Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden.
An article extracted from the CIDREE Yearbook 2009, on language policy and practice in Europe. The article, Mother tongue tuition - results and implications from a Swedish study, by Eva Wirén, Director of Education at the National Agency for Education, deals with the question. What does mother tongue tuition for foreign background students mean for their learning? 
A new field of education is emerging in a world increasingly connected by ties of travel, commerce and migration. Language skills and cultural sensitivity is the new currency of this world order. How well pre-schools and schools can deal with this is a determining factor for individuals and for societies. Policy makers are taking more and more interest in this matter. Please find recent reviews and policy recommendations by 
This report from the Swedish National Agency for School (2008), focuses on the work of the compulsory school concerning students with another mother tongue. Today, almost a fifth of compulsory school students have a foreign background;either born abroad or born in Sweden of foreign parents. The study has among other things attempted to illustrate the significance of participation in mother tongue tuition for the students’ knowledge performance - as regards grades and average merit ratings. 
