Education: New Life for a Dead Language

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In fact, the only limit to continuing growth for Latin is not in students' appetites but in the shortage of qualified instructors. Philadelphia's foreign-language-education director, Rudolph Mascian-tonio, who pioneered the city's Latin renaissance, says confidently, "If I had the teachers, we would have Latin in every fourth, fifth-and sixth-grade classroom in the city tomorrow." —ByEzraBowen.

Reported by Patricia Delaney/Washington and Jeanne-Marie North/Philadelphia

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