TY - JOUR AU - Kerchner, Charles Taylor AU - Özerk, Kamil PY - 2017/08/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Teaching language minority students in Los Angeles and Oslo-A metropolitan perspective nr 1 JF - International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education JA - IEJEE VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://iejee.com/index.php/IEJEE/article/view/47 SP - 315-332 AB - <p>Receiving, accommodation and education of children with immigrant background is one of the<br>challenging issues in almost all the metropolitan areas in many countries. In our study we are<br>exploring the impact of demographic changes on political agendas, legal frames, educational<br>approaches, research findings and student achievement in the field of education of linguistic<br>minorities in Los Angeles, USA and Oslo, Norway. Although there are significant historical and<br>socio economical differences between Los Angeles and Oslo, many of the educational<br>challenges facing the educational policy makers and the linguistic minority students are quite<br>similar.</p> ER -