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 ...
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.
When Principal Asya Johnson talks about her alma mater, Delaware State University, what comes through is not simply the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Teachers are no strangers to education jargon. From legal acronyms to the names of edtech trends, there seems to be an unending stream of new buzzwords—and accompanying tools—for educators to learn.
To my mind, the worst thing a student can say after turning in an assignment or taking an exam and being asked, “How’d you do?” is “I have no idea.” I’m not talking about the inevitable lack of total ...
The new boss of the U.S. Office of Education had barely been sworn in last week when he ventured an opinion about U.S. schools. “Soft,” “flabby,” “lax,” “easy,” exclaimed Commissioner Sterling M.
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