It was his fault, I said, for sending me to a rigorous Catholic school.

You'd think that rigorous schools would have higher dropout rates, but in fact the opposite is true.

The program at the rigorous prep school is intended to give students a taste of West Point life.

The school is one of the more rigorous college-preparatory schools in Oklahoma.

To the thousands of parents, students and teachers who have built successful, academically rigorous schools using performance-based assessment, these tools are already at hand.

Mitchell had attended a rigorous school just outside Paris, where the government would have subsidized his university education.

And the Internet reduces the academic price that students pay for going to less rigorous schools.

It's just that I had hoped to spend my teaching years in one of the more rigorous schools.

He completed the rigorous school graduating 14th out of 55 (90 students had begun the course).

That decline, he said, reflects that many new students transferred from less rigorous schools.