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 ...

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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 ...

International aid programs are often haphazard and ineffective tools to battle global poverty, and would benefit greatly if administrators applied academic rigor to decisions about what types of aid ...

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.

Among the targets of the so-called equity movement in education is academic rigor. Holding all students to objective learning standards is said to be unfair to some and therefore should be stopped.

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

However, those two factors can often seem to work against each other. Harder classes, of course, make it harder to earn higher grades. With this conundrum in mind, here are some insights on scheduling ...

In your recent interview with Trevor Packer, the senior vice president of the AP program at the College Board, Packer defended the sharp increase in high scores on the U.S. History and U.S. Government ...

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 ...

As Vietnam's education landscape continues to evolve, schools that combine academic rigor with a focus on whole-child ...