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| Title | Article: Give Latin (and Potential Dropouts) a Chance |
| Body | From http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/09/22/05woods-com_web.h28.html?tmp=1701786116 Give Latin (and Potential Dropouts) a Chance By Baynard Woods September 22, 2008 Perhaps we can eliminate the most persistent of our achievement gaps by introducing Latin into failing schools with high concentrations of poor and minority students. It can help these students with vocabulary-building, decoding, grammatical understanding, active reading, and metacognitive thinking. And an education in Latin would improve these urban students’ real-world chances of being accepted into good colleges. The introduction and systematic instruction of Latin could thus go a long way in lessening education’s achievement gaps, while also taking aim at society’s power and prestige gaps. Read the entire article at http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/09/22/05woods-com_web.h28.html?tmp=1701786116 . |
| Source | Education Week |
| Inputdate | 2008-09-28 09:54:11 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2008-09-28 09:54:11 |
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| Publishdate | 2008-09-29 00:00:00 |
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