The question seems straightforward enough: “During the current school year, to what extent have your courses challenged you to do your best work?” Which students pushed themselves academically, and at ...

Taking challenging coursework in middle school and high school not only prepares students for success in college but also is the best predictor of both college readiness and college success, says ...

Policymakers have called for more rigor in the Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) system for over three decades — at least since the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Skelton Panel of 1989, and ...

Richard Arum, professor of sociology at New York University, talked about critical thinking, colleges and careers last week at Rochester Institute of Technology. We spoke by phone about the subject ...

Yesterday’s post asked folks how they define academic rigor. I asked the right people the right question! The answers were thoughtful, wide-ranging, plentiful and sometimes even impassioned. Best.

We spend a lot of time teaching children to read, but not enough time teaching them to learn to love to read. This often quoted mantra comes to mind when I think about rigor. While rigor is often ...

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Thomas Jefferson Middle School has been a well-known landmark in the city of Indio since 1948. Once known as the Jefferson Jaharas, we are now proud to be the home of the Jaguars! For Jefferson ...

The No Child Left Behind act signed into law in 2002 made “accountability” a popular buzzword in education circles, as the law required schools to test students and meet state-established goals ...

COUNTRY SCHOOL AND GILMAN, JASON AND ANDRE. ALL WEEK WE’VE BEEN SHARING THE PRIORITIES FOR SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS AND ANDRE HARFORD COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT HAS THREE KEY AREAS THAT HE’S FOCUSING ON THIS ...

Rigor is defined as "strictness, severity or harshness." In the educational setting, however, we extend the definition to include "challenging" and "pushed to think critically and flexibly." When we ...

In “Rigor in Joint Professional Military Education,” Nick Murray argues that Congress and the Pentagon have done a poor job defining what it is they want the staff and war colleges to do and, ...