ABSTRACT
The overall aim of the Evaluation Studies for Cross-Cultural Teacher Training project was to generate a better understanding of the ways in which an increase in cultural diversity influences the work of educators. As regards policy concerning the receiving of immigrants, the first concerns are those of housing and entrance into the workforce. In this light, education may seem to be of secondary interest both to administrators who work with immigrants and to academics who study immigration. The educational responses have evolved in widely differing contexts - notably the natures and cultures of the immigrants themselves, the histories of the various nation-states which have received them, and the economic trajectories of the countries concerned since the arrival of the immigrants. In each of the countries studied, educational policies represent what are seen as judicious compromises between a disposition to absorb minority children into the educational system as given, and recognition of the need for some disparate educational treatment.
