Word: rigorousness
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Before applying to colleges, homeschoolers often enroll in a course at a local college or in a summer program at a competitive university to show that they can handle both the academic rigor and the social distractions of college life. Before their three college-bound, homeschooled children began making applications, the Heywood family of Durham, N.C., sent each child to a summer program at a highly ranked school: Oxford University in England or Williams or Amherst college in Massachusetts. "We chose to educate our kids at home because we weren't happy with what the local schools had to offer...
...tries to combine the kind of subjective depth of confessional poetry with a kind of intellectual rigor which we associate with a less personal poetry," he said...
...whatever we could to get them to buy in." That meant closing down five schools that were in the worst disrepair, renovating the rest and building two schools from scratch on the outskirts of town. The district installed parents on its strategic-planning committee. Then it increased the rigor of its curriculum, asking parents to vote on an academic focus for each of the schools. At one writing, communication and technology school, for example, students keep a daily journal starting in kindergarten; at a math and science school, students study botany in a state-of-the-art outdoor classroom...
...established in the state. So Brothers, along with the Chamber of Commerce director, Mayor Dickie Kennemore and others settled on a plan for what they called the Arkansas Charter School. It would serve 72 kindergartners and first-graders by the fall, and its goals would be academic rigor, racial balance and parental involvement...
...mentioned, the class had never been taught before. A note about never-before-taught classes: At worst, the class will be disorganized and the professor will resist all forms of grade inflation in an attempt to prove the rigor of the course. At best, the new course will be instructed by a professor still enthusiastic about the subject and will be much smaller, and thus more intimate, than many other classes-especially within the Core Curriculum. Unfortunately, I managed to find a particularly nasty example of a new course. The second two-thirds of the course were poorly organized...