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Originally Posted by RightinNYC  And all of this assumes that "the whole" is the same at one institution as it is at another. While it might very well be true that for high school, across the whole, homework is necessary for people to do well, at some schools and in some programs, it's absolutely not. |
These studies and panels are conducted cross University, so it takes in the data from many a University. There are tiers to this, like Ivy League pretty much the only retards you have in there are the bluebloods getting a ride on their daddy's name. But the vast majority of the students there are hard workers and thus don't have the same demographics of a state University. But the student bodies across the normal state Universities remains pretty uniform from one University to the next.
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Originally Posted by RightinNYC This would be true except for the fact that as I explained, many schools do eschew the use of homework in the way you're referring to it. The fact that many places do do this signifies that they don't think it's negatively affecting their graduation rate. I personally have been far more motivated to do outside work and learn in classes where the professor was engaged and interested in discussions as opposed to classes where the prof just assigned homework to be turned in and graded.
I can tell you that I don't know of a single law school that assigns homework - the law always has and always will be taught through the socratic method and suggested reading. None of the PhD Politics or History programs my friends are in have "homework." My girlfriend's med school doesn't have "homework."
If no homework = failure like you claim, I very much doubt that these programs would operate this way. |
Is that why we have so many crappy lawyers? Damn...maybe I took the wrong route, sounds like what you're doing is a piece of cake compared to what I'm doing now. Well I guess them's the breaks of pursuing hard science.