Students who are under a lot of stress not only feel anxious about their course work, they can have difficulty sleeping or concentrating. All of those things can decrease their immune system and they could become physically ill.

Students in this course work at their own pace.

It's nice for the students to have something modern to work with.

We've been up in arms for years and years and years, but it's a dead-end street. He's not moving anywhere.

We have deserving students who are kept out of college or have difficulty completing their degrees because of a lack of money. With increased competition abroad, this is exactly what we can't afford to have happening in this country.

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.