In a national survey from 2009, half of the seniors reported that they had not written a single paper over

More than 100,000 people worldwide signed up for a course on machine learning but only 13,000 completed the course. Introduction to Data Bases drew 92,000 enrollees but only 7,000 finished.

Three-quarters of the schools found that fewer students dropped out of the newly reconfigured classes. At the same time, the cost of giving the courses dropped in all thirty institutions by amounts averaging 37 percent.

“who can predict the impact of exponentiating technologies on social institutions, such as universities, corporations, or governments, as they continue to multiply in power a thousand-, a million-, and a billion-fold.”

From 1985 to 2000, the proportion of freshmen claiming to be bored in class reportedly rose from 26 percent to 40 percent. According to Amy Liu, Jessica Sharkness, and John H. Pryor, HERI Findings from the 2007 Administration of Your First College Year (YFCY) National Aggregates (2008), p. 9, the percentage of freshmen reporting that they were “fre

lower. One study issued by the US Department of Education found that among the high school graduates of 1992 who were college-qualified, only 52 percent of low-income students and 62 percent of middle-income students had entered a four-year college by 1994.

From 1961 to 2004, according to a series of self-reports from large samples of students, the average amount of time that

Nevertheless, studying did not decline any more among students who worked than among those who didn’t.

A staggering 98 percent of all published articles in the arts and humanities are never cited, and the corresponding figure for articles in the social sciences is 75 percent, a figure only slightly less dismaying.