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April 17, 2013

Chronicle of Higher Education

College and High-School Educators Still Disagree Over Students' Preparedness

By Dan Berrett

The gap in what students are expected to know between high school and college is often thought to be vast. A newly
released survey quantifies just how wide it is.

Eighty-nine percent of high-school instructors described the students who had completed their courses as "well" or "very well" prepared for first-year, college-level work in their discipline. But only one-quarter of college faculty said the same thing about incoming students. The gap was similar when the survey was last conducted, in 2009.




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Stanford University

The College Puzzle

A College Success Blog by Dr. Michael E. Kirst


Homework Insufficient In USA Secondary schools

April 17th, 2013

Guest Blogger: Will Fitzhugh


The most important variable in student academic achievement is, of course, student academic work.

Indiana University's High School Survey of Student Engagement found that:

of (U.S.) Public High School kids: [143,000 surveyed) in 2008

82.7% spend 5 or fewer hours a week on  written homework...
42.5% spend an hour or less each week on homework...

Korean students spend, on average, 15 hours a week on homework, 
added to 10 hours a week of hagwon after school = 25 hours a week.

[i.e. 25 times the time some U.S. HS students spend, or at least 5 times as much as the great majority of U.S. HS students...]



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