Sentence examples for rigorous students from inspiring English sources

"One of the worries was that we would attract not the most intellectually rigorous students we could find," Mr. Berman said.

Academic discipline was rigorous; students were allowed only one half-day each month for leisure.

In addition to the budget cuts, the 2011 school year was also the start of the state's transition to a new accountability system based on more rigorous student assessments that for the first time will be linked to graduation requirements and students' final grades.

The methods deployed in east Berlin, as this rigorous student of Warsaw Pact history appreciates, included closeting 20 victims in a tiny cell, making them stand all day and interrogating them through the night, regular beatings and water torture, and of course forcing signed, false confessions.

From his Manhattan perch, Mr Wilson has established himself as a rigorous student of, and original thinker about, the nexus of digital technology and media.He was an early backer of the seminal social-bookmarking start-up, del.icio.us, which more or less invented "tagging" content on the web and was bought by Yahoo! at the end of 2005.

State officials said it was difficult to design and implement rigorous student learning objectives--an alternate measure of student academic growth.

Too many early technology investments have had the feeling of a "fad" - lots of bells and whistles without enough understanding of how these tools result in new but rigorous student learning opportunities and outcomes.

When teachers demand rigorous work, students often rise to the occasion, whereas tracking students at different cognitive levels tends to "diminish learning and boost inequality".