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The Assessment movement may be here for the long term, and though it brings unwelcome frustrations, it also offers opportunities to showcase the special strengths and virtues of our discipline. Classics is uniquely well-equipped to navigate the Assessment maze successfully. Not only is our field a venerable one with well-established norms, we can make the case that studying the classical languages has a measurable impact on the holy grail of today’s educational goals: better writing.