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 ...

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 ...

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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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 ...

The number of minutes in a school day has not changed since I was in school – a long time ago – but the educational content surely has. We had physical education (PE) every day, and still managed to ...

ATDP launched four innovative programmes to equip Ghanaian students with STEM, technology, and financial literacy skills for ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The environment created by Covid-19 did not allow for face-to-face instruction, forcing educators to transition courses online. While Covid-19 ...

Students seeking academic challenges are going to have to pay for it. Following his State of the University Address last week, Adams told reporters that the University needs a tuition increase to fund ...

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 reviewing applicants’ high school transcripts, college admissions officers look for two main traits: a course load that shows academic rigor and a GPA that demonstrates academic mastery. However, ...