The campaign to make high school more demanding seems to be picking up support from the people who have the biggest stake in the matter: the students themselves. Almost nine in 10 students say they ...

Over dinner with friends at Leo J. O’Donovan Hall last week, my friends brought up their struggles with adjusting to the academic environment at Georgetown University. As low-income or middle-class ...

Far too many faculty members still think a challenging course should be like an obstacle race: You, as the instructor, set up the tasks and each student has to finish them (or not) to a certain ...

COVID-19 transformed the economy, health, politics and the future of education. The pandemic caused a frantic transition into a form of education that no one was prepared for – virtual learning on a ...

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.

As enrollment rates in colleges have continued to increase, a new book questions whether the historic number of young people attending college will actually learn all that much once they get to campus ...

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Back in March, Inside Higher Ed published a brief news story about two nursing professors at Widener University who were caught on a video that went viral, revealing that to each other they had said ...

When it comes to fixing our failing grading system, this proposed cap falls flat: The point of tackling grade inflation isn’t ...

Florida must come to terms with a stunning “Rigor Gap” that reflects a troubling trend, as a large number of students get passing grades for their classroom work, only to fail the related ...