Word: rigor
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...think it's much more intensive," said Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D'Alessandro. "There's going to be rigor in terms of helping students who did not do well on the MCAS...
...biggest admissions test, the ACT, had 1.8 million takers last year. Published by an Iowa testing company, the ACT started in 1959 as a rival to the SAT and focuses more on subject matter than general reasoning. But the ACT never developed the SAT's aura of quality and rigor. Whenever a college suggests dropping its SAT requirement, traditionalists on campus inevitably say doing so would lower standards...
...second-biggest admissions test, the act, had 1.8 million takers last year. Published by an Iowa testing company, the act started as a rival to the SAT and focuses more on subject matter than general reasoning. But the act never developed the sat's aura of quality and rigor. Whenever a college suggests dropping its SAT requirement, traditionalists on campus inevitably say doing so would lower standards...
...chose to include ourselves in an elite, intellectually challenging academic community. Many of us had opportunities to attend other colleges, but for one reason or another we favored fair Harvard above the rest. In making this decision, we opted to forgo a higher grade point average for intellectual rigor and the opportunity to participate in a cerebral environment. We raised the stakes of our own academic expectations. Or at least we did so in theory, for we certainly have not done so in practice...
...crust, and we should therefore be compared with and evaluated against the performance of our peers. And if the coveted Harvard diploma is to mean what it is meant to mean--namely the combined McKinsey, Mozart and Mercedes of the academic world--then our GPA's should reflect that rigor. Even if the average Harvard students can perform above the average elsewhere, they shouldn't expect--or be able--to do as well at Harvard...