Why Latin & Music?
The study of Latin and Music highlights TEP’s intensive focus on language development. Educational research has demonstrated that the study of Latin has strong positive effects on student reading ability, vocabulary development, and grammatical facility in both English and Spanish. In 2006, in addition to outperforming students of all other foreign languages on the Critical Reading and Writing sections of the SAT Reasoning Test, Latin students achieved a mean Critical Reading score that was 68 points higher than the national average and a mean Writing score that was 51 points higher than the national average. TEP’s music program – four years of classes in music literacy, performance, and history – is the other programmatic component related to the school’s emphasis on language development. Numerous research studies have documented the powerful link between the study of music and linguistic development in young children and adolescents. In 2006, the mean scores on all 3 sections of the
