It's time to hold ourselves and all of our students to a new and higher standard of rigor, defined according to 21st-century criteria. It's time for our profession to advocate for accountability systems that will enable us to teach and test the skills that matter most.
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For a teacher that is just awakening to rigor, it can seem simple until she applies it in the classroom. Rigor is certainly an educational concept that is worth further explanation.
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In the past, generations rarely questioned their coursework while the system, sought more rigor. Now, national trends tie rigor and relevance. Q: And what role must educational leaders play in preparing U.S. high school students to make better career decisions without being accused of tracking?
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The Rigor/Relevance Framework is a tool developed by staff of the International Center for Leadership in Education to examine curriculum, instruction, and assessment. The Rigor/Relevance Framework is based on two dimensions of higher standards and student achievement.
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Rigorous educational standards, he explained, were also a rarity at the time Harper created Chicago, forcing young people to earn outstanding educations. ... Of Harper, Boyer wrote, “He had the courage to take large and often controversial risks to achieve his educational vision.”...
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This homeschool policy (705.02: Part-Time Attendance by Private or Home-School Students) was approved unanimously by the Indian Prairie School District 204 on June 22, 2009. ... More here about the May meeting: Educational Rigor...
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It is our firm belief that if the District's academically talented and motivated students are to have a fighting chance at having their educational needs met in our schools, they need a strong voice and representation on the BOE.
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Alternative Pathways to College; continued from previous page ... Such psychological and financial pressures, combined with curricula that don’t set high expectations for students, have produced a high school dropout rate estimated at nearly 50 percent ... But creating one new high school model won’t solve these problems.
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We are going to need to change our educational system” and “There is no such thing as learning disconnected from community — locally and globally.”; We must be careful not to unknowingly fall into a paralysis-by-analysis syndrome, allowing rigor mortis to overtake our system.
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articles by alfie kohn ... The Cult of Rigor and the Loss of Joy ... It’s one more example of how a distorted description of educational reality is advanced in order to justify a traditional prescription.
www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/edweek/feelbad.htm
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