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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The idea of rigor is a hard one to measure, imo, and feels like a double edged sword.  I hear a lot of "most rigorous" curriculum but what does that actually mean?  There is a single boy at my son's school who took Linear algebra/multi-variable as a junior and will take number theory as a senior... is he considered more rigorous than a kid who takes two AP languages and but "only" gets to AP AB Calc?  Or the kid who takes Calculus-based physics but not Honors History?  My hunch is once you get to a certain point, it is all "most rigorous" but if you ask the kids themselves they would tell you these kids who track ahead are truly brighter than the rest -- but not sure that the college AO has enough time to really get into the weeds like this.[/quote]

The problem is especially acute when you have students who perform at a high level in the upper level English/History/Foreign Language courses relative to the Math/Science courses. Or in advanced Math but not Science. Or the converse.

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