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Source: American Enterprise Institute Education Outlook
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1. Babcock, Philip
Marks, Mindy S.
Leisure College, USA: The Decline in Student Study Time
American Enterprise Institute Education Outlook 7 (August 2010).
Also: http://www.aei.org/files/2010/08/05/07-EduO-Aug-2010-g-new.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Keyword(s): College Education; Extracurricular Activities/Sports; Human Capital; National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE); Project Talent; Time Use

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In 1961, the average full-time student at a four-year college in the United States studied about twenty-four hours per week, while his modern counterpart puts in only fourteen hours per week. Students now study less than half as much as universities claim to require. This dramatic decline in study time occurred for students from all demographic subgroups, for students who worked and those who did not, within every major, and at four-year colleges of every type, degree structure, and level of selectivity. Most of the decline predates the innovations in technology that are most relevant to education and thus was not driven by such changes. The most plausible explanation for these findings, we conclude, is that standards have fallen at postsecondary institutions in the United States.
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Babcock, Philip and Mindy S. Marks. "Leisure College, USA: The Decline in Student Study Time." American Enterprise Institute Education Outlook 7 (August 2010).