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 ...

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.

Rigor, it seems, is the new reform de jour. As a nation, we appear to have come to a consensus that all children deserve a “challenging and rigorous” education. The problem is, we have no common ...

Ask a student to memorize a formula, and AI can do it faster. But ask them to apply it to a real-world problem, and that’s where the future of rigor lies. For decades, rigor in advanced coursework ...

It’s a word that made one teacher post on Facebook that she wanted to “throw up in her mouth.” Pretty strong reaction, but when I asked people on my private Facebook page to provide a word that they ...

It can seem like the two groups of instructors, both of whom care about teaching, are talking past each other — perhaps from different planets. Given all of this, some have suggested that “rigor” has ...

As the new school year begins, districts are facing demands from parents and elected officials while also hearing calls for “more rigor” through distance learning. In making this important shift to ...

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.