This study comes in response to recent changes in UK policy, whereby Ancient Greek and Latin have been included alongside modern languages as part of the curriculum at Key Stage 2. It aims to understand how Ancient Greek is surviving and thriving in three different types of schools. After a short overview of the history of Greek teaching in the…

Total enrollments (undergraduate and graduate) in languages other than English dropped by 9.2% between fall 2013 and fall 2016, as reported in the Modern Language Association's twenty-fifth language enrollment census. Despite the overall drop, there were gains in nearly half of all language programs (45.5%) that mitigate somewhat the downward…

The Classical Investigation, conducted from 1921 to 1924 by the American Classical League, remains the largest study of the teaching and learning of Latin and Greek performed in US schools. The recommendations that emerged from the Classical Investigation placed less stress on the claims of mental discipline and more stress on the value of…

The decline of Latin language study in America in recent years is described and reasons are discussed. Advantages to be gained by keeping the study of Latin in secondary education are also discussed. (RM)

A discussion of proper Latin names that can be confusing for the student. (RM)

This article reviews a high quality Internet site called The Perseus Project, which serves as a remarkable entry page to the exploration of Greek, Latin, and the ancient classical world. (Author/VWL)

Twelve university students of Latin were assigned the task of translating Lincoln's Gettysburg Address into Latin. Some of the difficulties are touched on, and two successful examples are quoted in full. The advantages of using such exercises in intermediate and advanced Latin classes are mentioned. (RM)

The three major Latin textbooks published since 1968 are analyzed and they are shown to employ the latest theories of learning and of second language acquistion. (CK)

Comments on the nature and aims of teaching two classical Languages: Latin and Greek. Looks at the deeper benefits that these languages seek to offer and examines the ways in which they can contribute to the broadening of learners' minds. (Author/VWL)

Discusses indications of a trend toward popular recognition of the value of Latin as a personal, professional and scholarly resource. (Author/KM)

Discusses the demands of the Association pour la Defense du Latin that Latin be returned to the French secondary school curriculum and that the Classics-Science baccalaureat be restored as one of the French secondary programs. Benefits of studying Latin are enumerated. (KM)

Urges the continuation and expansion of Latin programs in the school curriculum and recommends Hans H. Oerberg's "Lingua Latina secundum Naturae rationem explicata," with which the student learns Latin through reading. (PM)

The classical languages program at a boys' grammar school in which the students are prepared for Oxford and Cambridge A-level examinations is described. Individual courses and teaching methods are described. (RM)

Provides theoretical and technical guidelines for the production of Greek and Latin comedies by students of these languages. (AM)

These tests are designed to measure the achievement of each pupil at the approximate midpoint of each unit in "Artes Latinae," Level 1, Book 1. They were produced in response to the need expressed by many teachers to provide a means of more frequent evaluation of pupil progress. Tests for 13 units are provided. They supplement the unit tests…