Over the past month or so, there have been quite a few articles relating to Latin, Latin teaching, and the like. Many of the following made the rounds of various lists, but just in case you missed them:
Mary Beard wasn’t enamoured of the new ‘Grace before meals’ written by some Cambridge students:
- Does college need a new grace? (Times)
… and it became a full-blown news item:
Christopher Francese was advocating doing away with Latin on college/university diplomas:
- A Degree in English (NY Times)
Jane Miriam Epperson Brinley wrote a very interesting OpEd piece for the Washington Post on the discontinuation of the AP literature exam:
Latin is on the rise in state schools in the UK, and now there are teacher shortages etc.:
… but some folks still don’t get it:
- Avoiding the arrows of sailors (Guardian)
… but someone did point that out:
- Is the study of Latin all washed up? (Guardian)
Then just the other day, the Times was pondering the same question (I commented in there somewhere):
A nice feature on the US Founders’ knowledge of Latin:
- The Founders Knew Latin (Lew Rockwell)
Deutsche Welle did some coverage of the Latin conference/competition in Arpino:
Students at Cohasset High School were/are trying to save their Latin program in the wake of their teacher’s retirement:
Jim Greenwall is retiring, after teaching for 41 years (!):
Newton North students were remembering their teacher, Robert Mitchell:
There was some recognition of performances on the NLE and JCL from Bexley Middle School … Terre Haute High … TMI …
… and you might want to take a look at this: The Comic Latin Grammar
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