they can also reinforce inequality if authoritarian ideas dominate the school culture. Latin America's structural ...

when citizens of Boston voted to establish a free Latin Grammar School, the first-ever publicly-funded school of its kind. That moment marked the beginning of public education in America which ...

When America achieved independence ... Before the Revolution, people learned grammar through classic British primers that were based in fusty Latin rules that didn’t really fit English.

Levine/Zuma Press Nothing bored me more during the summer of 2008 than the prospect of studying Latin grammar. I needed a foreign language as part of my high-school curriculum, and I was loath to ...

America’s first public elementary ... He modeled Boston Latin on an English school called the Free Grammar School of Boston in England. “From the earliest years the town assigned public ...

Latin is still taught as a foreign language in Germany today at grammar schools, and sometimes also at comprehensive schools. Here are five reasons why. Competence in foreign languages is becoming ...

Before 1960, the way in which British schools taught English grammar was based on Latin. Categories that had been developed for Latin grammar were imposed on English. That frequently made little ...