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  • Work, Toil, and the Quest for Academic Rigor

    Work, Toil, and the Quest for Academic Rigor

    American educational culture is obsessed with the idea of academic rigor. It shows up on marketing materials, core value statements, and school comparison charts. Rigor has become the gold standard of education, separating the wheat from the chaff and the excellent from the mediocre. Public schools, private schools, classical schools, progressive schools–they all claim academic…