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Puerto Rico Receives World’s Second Cervantes Chair

During his recent visit to Puerto Rico,...

Sharjah Shows Passion for Arabic

Sharjah, the third-most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, after Dubai and Abu Dhabi, recently hosted the third International Forum of Arabic Language...

France Hosts Francophonie Summit

For the first time in 33 years, this year’s Francophonie Summit was held in France. Creativity, innovation, and the ability to do business in...

Administration Boosts HSIs

Last month, the Biden-Harris Administration announced new actions...

Court Decision Threatens Tech Funds for Schools and Libraries

In July, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in Consumers’ Research v. FCC that the annual $8 billion Universal Service...

Languages Caucus Addresses Crisis in K-12 Schools

Last month, the Joint National Committee for Languages (JNCL), the national coalition providing representation on Capitol Hill for language education, hosted a timely and powerful...

Bill to Reauthorize Title VI Introduced in House

At the end of July, before leaving for recess, Representatives Deborah Ross (D-North Carolina), Valerie Foushee (D-North Carolina), and Jimmy Panetta (D-California) introduced a...

Chinese Focus on Traditional Culture and Language

Starting this semester, China’s national school curriculum will...

Intelligent Assessment

If the words AI and assessment are in the same sentence, the knee-jerk reaction is panic, as fears of technophobia, over-standardization, miscalculation, bias, security,...

Israel Introduces Mandatory Hebrew Tests

According to According to the Jerusalem Post, for the first time ever, Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch plans to conduct mandatory Hebrew testing for...

San Francisco Makes Vietnamese Official

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted unanimously to make Vietnamese an official language, joining Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino as languages in which...

China Bans Tibetan on Douyin

Tibetans in Tibet have expressed concerns and dismay in response to the Chinese government’s decision to ban the Tibetan language and remove posts in...

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