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From http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/spoken-latin-a-modern-remedy-for-the-nations-age-old-reading-problems/2014/07/31/20269f54-0792-11e4-a0dd-f2b22a257353_story.html

Spoken Latin: A modern remedy for the nation’s age-old reading problems?
By Frances Stead Sellers
August 8, 2014

Many forward-thinking educators, including several in Washington, are advocating “active Latin” — learning to converse in Latin, singing Latin songs and playing Latin games with students, and even designing immersion Latin curricula. They think kids should not only be able to read a dead language but also order lunch in it — including kids who are struggling to compose a grammatical sentence in English.

Read on at http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/spoken-latin-a-modern-remedy-for-the-nations-age-old-reading-problems/2014/07/31/20269f54-0792-11e4-a0dd-f2b22a257353_story.html

Here is a related article with US presidential quotations translated into Latin: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/08/13/some-people-still-speak-latin-what-if-u-s-presidents-did/