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By Mary Beth Martin
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
What raises SAT scores, grade point averages, reading ability, vocabulary skills, grammar and even math skills? It is not high tech or anything new. As a matter of fact, it is quite old. Ask Rappahannock County resident, Sarah Roach, who just had published a book about Latin.
According to this classicist, when SAT scores fell in the 1980s, educators started looking at the curricula and comparing them to test scores. This led to a tremendous resurgence of Latin in the schools, making the ancient language a requirement in many private and public schools. It is not surprising when so many English words (almost half) have Latin roots. In 1994 the national average SAT verbal score was 517 and Latin students’ was 579, a difference of 62
91.9%