At a small table set between bookcases in an office at the foreign language wing of Plainville High School, three students are trying to grasp the concept of participles – Latin participles. Across ...

Latin Class at Roosevelt HighAs part of his year-long series from Roosevelt High School in Seattle, NPR's Robert Smith profiles the school's Latin teacher. She's been fighting a 25-year crusade to ...

For Reina Callier, learning Latin ‘is like lifting weights for your brain’ When a student in one of Reina Callier’s Latin classes said, “I came for the language, I stayed for the vibes,” she laughed, ...

These days, the first lesson of high school Latin is often to answer the question: why Latin? The language peaked in the era of Roman gladiators and slowly faded throughout the Middle Ages. Today, 800 ...

The Naperville District 203 School Board may discontinue the district’s Latin language program at its Oct. 17 meeting, a proposal drawing protests from some Latin students and their teacher. Jayne ...

Throughout the fall 2010 semester, Calvin students will be chanting “amo, amas, amat” under the direction of various professors of classical languages in various classrooms in Heimenga Hall. In the ...

Every year in late August, an envelope arrived from school with a document that would determine my fate for the next nine months: my schedule. I’d scan the page to see if I’d gotten any especially ...

Despite impassioned pleas from some students, the Naperville District 203 School Board voted this week to eliminate its high school Latin language program due to low enrollment. Those students ...

Gates Chili Central School District may soon say "arrivederci" to Italian classes, even though census data shows a quarter of the population in the town of Gates is of Italian heritage. And Latin ...