By focusing on more rigorous curriculum, we'll get students with better test scores.

We want everything to be hands-on. The curriculum should be alive for the students, instead of flat ... They are challenged, but they're able to express themselves and think outside of the box and really understand topics in depth.

We're finding that students are able to meet many state standards, curriculum standards and our school standards with this project.

The task force feels as though the curriculum should give students an option for a variety of courses, including those that were closed off to students from other colleges in the past. We don't think any campus, except Douglass, should really be built around one theme.

Now is not the time to blame students. Now is the time to analyze our curriculum and make sure we're teaching what we are being tested on.

We can expect more from our students both academically and behaviorally if we increase the difficulty level of the curriculum, ... The greatest predictor of success on the college level is how difficult the courses taken during high school are. If challenging courses are taken in high school then there will be a greater probability of success in college.