Language Magazine

12/15/2025

https://languagemagazine.com/2025/12/13/los-angeles-schools-sign-portuguese-deal/

In between protecting his students from immigration agents entering their schools and campaigning against raids in Los Angeles, the city’s schools superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho has negotiated Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD’s) first-ever memorandum of understanding (MoU) with...

11/30/2025

Diep Nguyen suggests using classroom-based assessment to boost success for Multilingual Learners

As fall arrives, students are returning to school, we hope, with a renewed enthusiasm for learning. As teachers prepare for the first day of school, they may have reviewed the class roster and conducted an initial assessment of their students to determine their learning trajectory for the year. As c...

11/18/2025

https://languagemagazine.com/2025/11/17/america-the-multilingual/
Maria Carreira recognizes the value of apps in making language learning more popular and teachers more effectiveMaría

María Carreira recognizes the value of apps in making language learning more popular and teachers more effective There’s an old joke widely used among language teachers: What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual. Someone who speaks three? Trilingual. And someone who speaks only...

11/18/2025

https://languagemagazine.com/2025/11/16/spanish-growth-accelerates/

The number of Spanish speakers in the world grew by 30 million in 2025, up 5% from the previous year, and now stands at more than 635 million, while the continued growth ofSpanish learners looks set to take the number of Spanish language students beyond 100 million by the end of the century, accordi...

11/09/2025

https://languagemagazine.com/2025/11/08/help-shape-californias-educational-future/

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10/31/2025

“To effectively serve Multilingual Learners, teachers need more than just theoretical knowledge of SoR. They require high-quality professional development…”

When Teachers Adapt
Ester de Jong and Socorro Herrera call for teacher agency amidst science of reading mandates

Ester de Jong and Socorro Herrera call for teacher agency amidst science of reading mandates In Spring of 2023, we wrote a short article in Language Magazine, outlining three areas where the science of reading movement and its implementation rendered the research on and experiences of multilingual l...

10/29/2025

https://languagemagazine.com/2025/10/15/michigan-boosts-ell-spending-by-25/

Detroit's Eastern Market, one of oldest public markets in the United States. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signedher seventh recordeducation budgetinto law.The balanced, bipartisan fiscal year 2026 (FY26)school aidbudgetsets a record amount in per-pupil funding of $10,050 and includes $122....

10/28/2025

Making Education More Than a GradeIn December of 2013, I published an article in Language Magazine entitled, “Making Education More Than a Grade”. This article examined the positive effects of service learning for English language learners (ELLs) - now updated to Culturally and Linguistically Di...

10/23/2025

Anne Paonessa focuses on making education more than just a grade by building life skills and supporting

Making Education More Than a GradeIn December of 2013, I published an article in Language Magazine entitled, “Making Education More Than a Grade”. This article examined the positive effects of service learning for English language learners (ELLs) - now updated to Culturally and Linguistically Di...

10/21/2025

https://languagemagazine.com/2025/10/20/paraguay-launches-archive-to-preserve-guarani-and-jopara/

Ciudad del Este, the second largest city in Paraguay, on the triple border with Brazil and Argentina. Paraguay has unveiled one of the region’s most ambitious cultural preservation projects with the launch of Proyecto Guaraní–Revista Ysyry, a digital archive and bilingual anthology that safegua...