But she missed her family back on the East Coast and wondered if she was missing out on a more rigorous academic experience.
The difference was quantified easily enough: students in other industrialized nations were taking a far more rigorous academic program than were typical Americans.
The Maschmanns, she explained, had decided that Melita needed more rigorous academic preparation for her Abitur (end-of-school exam), and had transferred her to a boarding school.
At a time when teachers nationwide are assigning more and increasingly difficult homework to prepare students to meet more rigorous academic standards, parents like Ms. Vanible find themselves unable to tackle their children's homework.
Through the force of his personality, upgraded practice and weight room facilities, more rigorous academic demands and indefatigable recruiting of better athletes, Golden has set about rebuilding Temple football brick by brick.
Before politics, Truss was deputy director of the thinktank Reform, which pushed for more rigorous academic standards in schools as well as a tougher approach to organised and serious crime.
I suppose we are going to have to cast aside all the techniques that we have previously used to get our own way with boys and now instead opt for a more rigorous, academic approach.
Looking at more rigorous academic papers, the most that can be said is that men and women make similar investment decisions, but that women's returns are better because they don't buy and sell shares as often, so incur fewer fees.That isn't negligible, but it hardly suggests a convincing winner in this financial battle of the sexes.
Some said they heard in his words a boost for the new, more rigorous academic standards that have been adopted around the nation, known as the Common Core, as he praised Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and others as having courage for raising standards for teachers.
Acknowledging that the nation's educators face large challenges in preparing students for more rigorous academic standards and tests, Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, told state education officials on Tuesday that they could postpone making career decisions about teachers based on performance evaluations tied to new tests.
