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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 in...

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 re...

Diep Nguyen separates myth from fact to explain what language educators can do about Plyler v. Doe The Guarantee of Public Education for Students Regardless of Their Immigration Status In 1975, the Texas Legislature passed a statute withholding state education funding from school districts that enrolled children who had not been “legally admitted” to the […]

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