Assessment of language status and conditions of success for the transition from day care to primary school

With the obligatory introduction of four-and-a-half-year-old children at primary school and a strong pre-school system for some educational politicians, Hamburg is a model for targeted promotion of children before the transition to school. However, how well does this model work in practice and what evidence of the effectiveness of this model actually exists? Tom Töpfer and Lena Spiekermann (The PARITISCHE Wohlfahrtsverband Hamburg) addressed the…