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Homework Insufficient In USA Secondary schools

 Guest Blogger: Will Fitzhugh

The most important variable in student academic achievement

is, of course, student academic work.

 (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…

 Indiana University’s High School Survey of Student Engagement]Korean students spend, on average, 15 hours a week on homework,

added to ten 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…]