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Lexington: The underworked American | The Economist - 0 views

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  • eoeuoeu oepup on 14 Jun 09
     
    American children have it easier than most other children in the world, including the supposedly lazy Europeans. They have one of the shortest school years anywhere, a mere 180 days compared with an average of 195 for OECD countries and more than 200 for East Asian countries. German children spend 20 more days in school than American ones, and South Koreans over a month more. Over 12 years, a 15-day deficit means American children lose out on 180 days of school, equivalent to an entire year. American children also have one of the shortest school days, six-and-a-half hours, adding up to 32 hours a week. By contrast, the school week is 37 hours in Luxembourg, 44 in Belgium, 53 in Denmark and 60 in Sweden. On top of that, American children do only about an hour's-worth of homework a day, a figure that stuns the Japanese and Chinese.
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BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Danish pupils use web in exams - 0 views

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  • D-roms and exam papers are handed out together. This is the Danish language exam. One of the teachers stands in front of the class and explains the rules. She tells the candidates they can use the internet to answer any of the four questions. They can access any site they like, even Facebook, but they cannot message each other or email anyone outside the classroom
  • The Danish government says if the internet is so much a part of daily life, it should be included in the classroom and in examinations.
  • "The main precaution is that we trust them. I think the cheat rate is very low because the consequences of cheating are very big."
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  • I think it'd be very difficult [to cheat] because you don't have time, you're under pressure, and you have too many tasks.
  • the nature of the questions make it harder to cheat in exams. Students are no longer required to regurgitate facts and figures. Instead the emphasis is on their ability to sift through and analyse information.
  • Our exams have to reflect daily life in the classroom and daily life in the classroom has to reflect life in society
  • "The internet is indispensible, including in the exam situation. I'm sure that is would be a matter of very few years when most European countries will be on the same line."
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