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Shorten Their Time to Degree With Summer School

This is the second in my “making the most of summer” series. We often look at summer school as a way for students to make up after failing a course, or if they’re otherwise behind. But there are other good reasons to take summer classes, such as a way to graduate early! Graduating on Time […]

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Is My Student’s High School Rigorous Enough?

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Parents hear it from the media and guidance counselors all the time: make sure your student takes rigorous courses in high school. And perhaps you’ve struggled with the obvious question: how rigorous should a high school curriculum be? What is Rigor? Allison Wignall said it simply: “…rigor is the academic or intellectual challenge of a

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