Sentence examples for more rigorous courses from inspiring English sources

The governors promise higher standards, more rigorous courses, tougher exams.

PAGE A12 Bid to Improve High Schools Thirteen states, with more than one-third of the nation's students, are forming a coalition to improve high schools by adopting more rigorous courses and tougher tests.

Requiring school uniforms, adding hours to the schoolday, providing more rigorous courses — all may be helpful, but no combination of efforts confined solely to the schools will provide the magic answer.

I also began remembering how Ernie Davis students had been divided into two tracks: high-achieving students like me -- most white and upper middle class -- were "Regents track," meaning we took more rigorous courses that prepared us for the college-preparatory Regents exams.

That effort dates to 2005, when 13 states agreed to work together to develop better definitions of what students need to know to be ready for college, more rigorous courses to teach those standards and tougher examinations to test them, said Michael Cohen, president of Achieve, a Washington-based organization that is coordinating the effort.

Until recently (and we sincerely hope this is changing), undergraduates in biology in the United States were required to take only a relatively weak version of calculus and not the more rigorous courses required of engineers and physicists.

Louisiana already has required public- and private-teacher-education programs to offer more rigorous course work, and teachers must pass licensing exams in more subject areas than before.

After the issuance of "A Nation at Risk," the 1983 federal report that described the nation's schools as woefully substandard, a panel charged with proposing means for improvement recommended that all students be required to take more, and more rigorous, course work.

Some STEM high schools focus heavily on STEM subjects by requiring a more rigorous course sequence in science and mathematics than what is required at the state level.

More rigorous course work has been linked directly to increased overall achievement by students, leading to higher selection of STEM majors in college (Adelman, 1999).

Students must take more rigorous, demanding courses in high school, and state and federal policy makers must face up to the fact that more money is required, especially for student aid and early outreach programs to working-class students.