What the blazes is academic rigor? President Michael Adams and his aides in the University bureaucracy are trumpeting new policies and amendments to academic practices with increasing frequency, each ...

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 ...

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I got an email from a fellow edu-blogger a couple of days ago asking for my input on the subject of academic rigor. Specifically this person asked: I got an email from a fellow edu-blogger a couple of ...

Ask any first year how their courses are going, and you’ll probably hear about how challenging their writing seminar, engineering prerequisites, or first departmental class is. Princeton prides itself ...

If Harvard professes to prioritize academics, negotiations should be guided by one principle: preserve the breadth and quality of its academic offerings, not milk the faculty dry.

NYC schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels will visit every borough over the coming weeks to discuss safety, academic rigor, ...

Students who complain that their college courses are too difficult may have found a new friend in one Purdue engineering professor who is claiming that the concept of academic rigor merely exists to ...

When the word started coming in that there was more to the Covington Catholic / Nathan Phillips story than what the initial widely-shared short video showed, my first response was relief. Specifically ...

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 ...

MetaMetrics ®, developer of the global standard for literacy and numeracy measurement, today announced the appointments of Dr. Fred McDaniel II, as its first Chief Academic Officer, effective January ...

The Brookline High School 21st Century Fund will host a discussion about academic rigor in public high schools at 7 p.m. Thursday. Carey Goldberg, a cohost of WBUR’s CommonHealth blog and a former ...