The district prides itself on academic rigor and student support, provided mostly by grad coaches who make daily decisions about when students have mastered the material and how much time they should spend on a particular skill.
Now that she runs a school, with her husband, Michael Chernov, she presumably brings that rigor to her students.
A spokeswoman issued a statement saying that while Mr. Perry supported efforts to re-evaluate the state's high school curriculum, he intended to "protect the academic rigor that prepares students for career and college".
Colleges will also evaluate the rigor of the student's four-year curriculum, so make sure students are taking courses with increasing difficulty each year, signifying they're prepared for a college course load.
The grades and the rigor of the student's course of study, as well as the extracurricular activities and summer experiences, are taken into consideration.
Teachers have had to take on more and more students, relaxing rigor and achievement along the way, according to interviews.
Hart is the opposite of politic — to the point of regularly, publicly denouncing Miami University for what he regards as declining academic rigor and coddling of students, all in the university's pursuit of "money, money, money".
Josh Havens, a spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry, said the governor favored a curriculum that required four years of math and science and "does not support efforts that lessen the accountability and academic rigor that prepares our students for career and college".
Curricula and rigor of courses varies from student to student and school to school.
The main problem with Fulljames' approach, as discussed by Francis and Greer Francis and Greerr 2001 42), was a lack of rigor in determining the student's views on science, resulting in conclusions being drawn on the basis of only one or two survey items.
