the students at woodburn are better. >> incredible. i have never had a student who reads everything. every page that i assign. and they do. >> how far in do we go on that issue? >> for example, we had a number of classes a student would say, the footnote on page 43 says this. i never read that footnote. there's so many stories like that where you just simply don't know the answer because they push you to become a better teacher. >> one of the things i'm concerned with about the survey.... >> reporter: admittedly this is a captive audience with study periods that last all day. but they sure do use them. michael is serving 17 to 35 for assault, just got a b.a. in history. >> my senior project i dealt with construction. how history is created. and in dealing with that i had to interrogate the civil rights movement jacks the posed against the american revolution. >> reporter: this former drug dealer is a computer science majoror, interested in open source. >> i'm doing object oriented programming. the new system they brought in, python is