Sentence examples for rigorous academic programs from inspiring English sources

The issue of attracting low-income children and minorities into rigorous academic programs has vexed city officials for years.

For all their freedom to experiment, private schools in New York tend to offer fairly traditional, rigorous academic programs.

They vary widely in style, focus and performance, including some that emphasize music or art, foreign languages, or rigorous academic programs.

Other, more concrete indicators present a different picture: Schools with rigorous academic programs and coherent cultures do a particularly good job of cultivating students' civic behavior.

These outcomes are natural byproducts of successfully managing intensely rigorous academic programs while meeting peers and mentors with similar backgrounds and interests.

To meet the rapidly growing need for physicians trained to provide the specialized care that many older people require, the Geriatrics Fellowship Program at Duke University Medical Center offers one of the nation's most comprehensive and rigorous academic programs in the field.

Doig hated the rigorous academic program, and after three years his parents let him come home.

Along with a rigorous academic program there were significant opportunities for exploration: science and math research; foreign language clubs and magazines; literacy networks; musical forays.

"When someone's been away for two years, you wonder about their transition back to a rigorous academic program," said Michael Behnke, dean of enrollment at the University of Chicago.

The difference was quantified easily enough: students in other industrialized nations were taking a far more rigorous academic program than were typical Americans.

The New York version of LEAP is a rigorous academic program offered in partnership with Manhattan College in Riverdale, the Bronx.