<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">April 17, 2013</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Chronicle of Higher Education</font></i></div><div><i><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></i></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">College and High-School Educators Still Disagree Over Students' Preparedness</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">By Dan Berrett</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">The gap in what students are expected to know between high school and college is often thought to be vast. <b>A newly</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>released survey quantifies just how wide it is.</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">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. <b>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.</b></font></div><div><br><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Palatino; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"></font><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>=============</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 18.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Stanford University</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 14.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The College Puzzle</font></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; text-align: center; font: 14.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">A College Success Blog by Dr. Michael E. Kirst</font></b></span></p><div><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 14.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><a href="http://collegepuzzle.stanford.edu/?p=2992"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>Homework Insufficient In USA Secondary schools</b><span style="font: 14.0px Palatino; letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b></b></span></font></a></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">April 17th, 2013</font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Guest Blogger: Will Fitzhugh</font></span></p><div><br></div><div>The most important variable in student academic achievement is, of course, student academic work.</div><div><br></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Indiana University's High School Survey of Student Engagement found that:</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">of (U.S.) Public High School kids: [143,000 surveyed) in 2008</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><b>82.7% spend 5 or fewer hours a week on written homework...</b></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">42.5% spend an hour or less each week on homework...</font></b></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Korean students spend, on average, 15 hours a week on homework, </font></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">added to 10 hours a week of <i>hagwon</i> after school = 25 hours a week.</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Palatino"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">[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...]</font></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; min-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Palatino; min-height: 18px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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