{"id":215,"date":"2006-01-03T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=215"},"modified":"2006-11-22T13:14:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T05:14:01","slug":"latin-and-greek-in-us-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/latin-and-greek-in-us-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin and Greek in U.S. schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Liberman at Language Log mentions the role Latin and Greek used to play in education (<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002736.html#more\">Old school<\/a>), which is as good an excuse as any to post some graphs I made a few weeks ago from data (not current, alas) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfl.org\/ADFL\/bulletin\/v31n3\/313053.htm\">Latin and Greek Enrollments in America&#8217;s Schools and Colleges<\/a>. (I&#8217;m trying to post my backlog before Chinese New Year. And maybe then I can finally answer all the mail and comments that have been piling up.)<\/p>\n<p>Note that these are not to scale with each other. <\/p>\n<p>Latin as a Percentage of Enrollments, Grades 9-12<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news_photos\/latin_highschool.gif\" style=\"height: 229px; width: 315px; padding-bottom: 1em;\" alt=\"percentage of U.S. high school students enrolled in Latin courses, by year, showing a steep decline from the mid 1960s to mid 1970s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Latin, as a Percentage of College Enrollments<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news_photos\/latin_college.gif\" style=\"height: 231px; width: 343px; padding-bottom: 1em;\" alt=\"percentage of U.S. college students enrolled in Latin courses, by year, showing a steep decline from the late 1960s to mid 1970s\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Greek, as a Percentage of College Enrollments<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news_photos\/greek_college.gif\" style=\"height: 229px; width: 335px; padding-bottom: 1em;\" alt=\"percentage of U.S. college students enrolled in Greek courses, by year\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The numbers appear different in another paper from the same source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adfl.org\/resources\/enrollments.pdf\">Foreign Language Enrollments in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2002<\/a> (PDF). This also gives data for many other languages. <\/p>\n<p>I was going to have this lead into a discussion on the role of Classical Chinese in education in Taiwan, but I&#8217;m too far behind. So this makes two entries in a row without a direct tie-in to this site&#8217;s theme. Sorry about that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Liberman at Language Log mentions the role Latin and Greek used to play in education (Old school), which is as good an excuse as any to post some graphs I made a few weeks ago from data (not current, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2006\/latin-and-greek-in-us-schools\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,47,28,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classical-chinese","category-greek","category-languages","category-latin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}