Content area
Full text
Rigor Is Not a Four-Letter Word by Barbara R. Blackburn. 2008. Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education. 178 pp. $29.95. www.eyeoneducation.com
"Lack of rigor" has become a buzz phrase for all that is deemed wrong with public education, the disturbing and offensive implication that teachers are all about nurturing children and not at all about educating them. Indeed, a colleague likes to say the word reminds her of the term "rigor mortis," a distinguishing indicator of death.
There is no...