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The New York Times has an interesting article about high school rigor today:
Kati Haycock, director of the Education Trust, another Washington-based group that advocates standard-setting, said that as she traveled around the country, she found many schools not offering challenging work.
“When you look at the assignments these kids get, it is just appalling,” she said. “A course may be labeled college-preparatory English. But if the kids get more than three-paragraph-long assignments, it is unusual. Or they’ll be asked to color a poster. We say ‘How about doing analysis?’ and they look at us like we are demented.”
“It's easy not to rebel. It's easy not to protest. The middling lives are so rich in comforts; the poorer lives so abundant in hardships. It's easier not to sing out. Yet history is littered with radicals of thought and deed; swimmers against the currents of their day, trying to keep their heads above the water; not drowning, but waving to others, if not to follow, then at least take notice of their struggle."—Warwick McFayden
