Yesterday’s post asked folks how they define academic rigor. I asked the right people the right question! The answers were thoughtful, wide-ranging, plentiful and sometimes even impassioned. Best.

Policymakers have called for more rigor in the Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) system for over three decades — at least since the Goldwater-Nichols Act, the Skelton Panel of 1989, and ...

Ask a student to memorize a formula, and AI can do it faster. But ask them to apply it to a real-world problem, and that’s where the future of rigor lies. For decades, rigor in advanced coursework ...

A s colleges quickly moved classes online two years ago, professors went into emergency mode. To keep the ship of their course afloat, some were willing to jettison all kinds of cargo: traditional ...

I got an email from a fellow edu-blogger a couple of days ago asking for my input on the subject of academic rigor. Specifically this person asked: I got an email from a fellow edu-blogger a couple of ...

Before joining the world of education, my mother tongue consisted mostly of an abbreviated written and verbal vocabulary. Medical jargon is composed of an untold number of symbols and acronyms that ...

You sure see that word around a lot these days in education circles, so it’s definitely a timely question. Thanks, Donna, for asking it! My three guest responses today -- from Barbara R. Blackburn, ...

This essay is a collaboration with Robert Hoffman and is based on a report by Klein et al. (2021) that was prepared for the Defense Advanced Research and Projects Agency. This essay is about ...