Language Magazine

Foreign residents in Spain’s autonomous region of Catalunya will now have to pass a Catalan language test to renew their residence permits. Salvador Illa, president of the Generalitat (regional government), has confirmed—during a radio interview—that basic knowledge of Catalan will become compulsory for renewing residence permits managed by the regional administration. The regional government is […]

Don’t let any ‘football’ snob or president tell you otherwise this World Cup Kirk Bowman, Georgia Institute of Technology At the 2026 World Cup draw, FIFA Peace Prize recipient and U.S. President Donald Trump announced that the game should really be called “football.” “There’s no question about it. We have to come up with another name […]

Fanta Aw, PhD asks what kind of world are we helping to create through internationalization It has been just over a week since we concluded an extraordinary NAFSA annual conference in Orlando, Florida. And before anything else, I simply want to say thank you. Thank you to the Annual Conference Committee, the NAFSA Board of […]

Senators Jim Banks (R-IN), Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Tim Scott (R-SC) recently introduced the bipartisan Reading Excellence and Achievement for Development (READ) Act to the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. The READ Act is a bipartisan bill intended to align federal literacy efforts with the Science […]

As hundreds of thousands of soccer fans gather in Canada’s host cities for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the country is using the global spotlight to promote the revitalization of Indigenous languages. The Department of Canadian Heritage has deployed an updated strategic framework that utilizes the massive platform of the tournament to accelerate the implementation […]

Conor P. Williams and Leigh Mingle believe it’s high time to move past warmed over reading wars For all the years of talk about “reform” and “disruption” and “reinvention” in K–12 schools, it’s sometimes striking how little has changed in public education over the past several decades. Most classrooms are still organized to face a […]

In a formal address for World Refugee Day 2026, the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) Croatia highlighted the immediate structural challenges facing the country’s growing refugee population, including more than 25,000 displaced Ukrainians. A central focus of their report is the severe lack of translation and interpretation support, which prevents newcomers from accessing basic rights. JRS […]

by David Young, Gemini, EdNC.org

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the Lawyers’ Committee for Rhode Island (LCRI) and the National Education Association (NEA), on behalf of its members, have filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) termination of millions of dollars in professional development grants for improving educational instruction for English learners. In September 2025, the […]

Elena Izquierdo, José Medina, Vanessa Espitia, and Sarah De La Garza call on leaders to learn in real time so that dual language bilingual education delivers its promise to all students For decades, bilingual education and particularly Dual Lan­guage Bilingual Education (DLBE), has built a strong and well-documented case as one of the most effective […]