Chapter 1 Rigor

I was shocked by some of the Silent Epidemic findings. Since all of my experience has been with teaching middle school students, I never really encountered high school drop outs. I assumed that they were unmotivated or just overwhelmed with personal problems that kept them from performing in school. I never thought that boring classes could be a reason to quit.

I was also struck by the author's comment that rigor is doing more with less, not necessarily assigning more work.