After more than 30 frenetic years as a book editor in New York, Ann Patty, who shepherded several novels, including “Flowers in the Attic” and “Life of Pi,” onto bestseller lists, learned the wisdom ...

MUNSTER, Ind. (AP) - If you really want to enhance your vocabulary, take Latin. Latin is everywhere - in our government buildings, in medical and legal language, and it is the foundation for Romance ...

In the basement of a nursing home in Milwaukee, the world's best Latin lessons are given for free. That's where Father Reginald Foster, a priest who lacks patience, gives his lessons. He's managed to ...

“The Roman Church has special obligations towards Latin, the splendid language of ancient Rome, and she must manifest them whenever the occasion presents itself” (Dominicae Cenae, 10). Teaching Latin ...

Sentence by sentence, Kate Underwood dissected a letter between Cicero and Atticus of ancient Rome. With each word, the 12th-grader translated Latin into English. It was the latest assignment for her ...

In dual language classes, students learn in English and one other language. CPS schools teach students American Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Polish ...

Fan fiction, Minecraft and Taylor Swift lyrics are hardly the stuff of traditional Latin lessons. They are, however, part of an expanding repertoire that teachers are successfully drawing on to deepen ...

In an episode of “The Simpsons,” 10-year-old Martin Prince has a “Nightmare on Elm Street”-style dream in which he’s conjugating Latin verbs. The funny part is that, unlike most people’s nightmares, ...