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 ...

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 ...

Over dinner with friends at Leo J. O’Donovan Hall last week, my friends brought up their struggles with adjusting to the academic environment at Georgetown University. As low-income or middle-class ...

COVID-19 transformed the economy, health, politics and the future of education. The pandemic caused a frantic transition into a form of education that no one was prepared for – virtual learning on a ...

Far too many faculty members still think a challenging course should be like an obstacle race: You, as the instructor, set up the tasks and each student has to finish them (or not) to a certain ...

A handful of states have increased the rigor of their state assessments since 2007, an analysis released this month by the statistical wing of the U.S. Department of Education concludes. The finding ...

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Back in March, Inside Higher Ed published a brief news story about two nursing professors at Widener University who were caught on a video that went viral, revealing that to each other they had said ...

For many, high school is a time to prepare for college. Hutchinson High School’s College 1-2-3 program aims to help students get an early start, and take it at the right pace. “Adjusting our academic ...

Members of the District 191 Student Performance and Achievement Committee presented to the School Board on March 23 which included data regarding graduation rates over the past three years. “We see ...

The campaign to make high school more demanding seems to be picking up support from the people who have the biggest stake in the matter: the students themselves. Almost nine in 10 students say they ...