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January 30, 2011Do students at selective schools really study less?So says Philip Babcock in today's New York Times. He claims:Posted by Jim Zellmer at January 30, 2011 1:18 AMFull-time college students in the 1960s studies 24 hours per week, on average, and their counterparts today study 14 hours per week. The 10-hour decline is visible for students from all demographic groups and of all cognitive abilities, in every major and at every type of college.The claim that this is true for "every type of college" is important because he wants to conclude that schools have lowered their standards. The alternative is that there are more, low-quality schools now, or that some schools have massively lowered their standards. These are both potentially problems -- and are probably real -- but are not quite the same problem as all schools everywhere lowering their standards. Subscribe to this site via RSS/Atom: Newsletter signup | Send us your ideas Comments
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