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Where’s the rigor in U.S. schools?

nitajo sumitted ago via http://voices.washingtonpost.com (Views: 89, Clicks: 17)  View Story

Justin Snider -- Part of the problem with talk about “rigor” is that no one really seems to know or agree on what the word means. Governors boast of the rigors of their K-12 educational systems, while every principal proclaims his or her school “rigorous.” The Common Core Standards, meanwhile, “include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills.”

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Asking too little of our students does them a great disservice — something that even President George W. Bush acknowledged, saying that we as a nation must move beyond the “soft bigotry of low expectations,” the status quo in education that has prevailed for far too long. -- Justin Snider
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