Homework in America: From Child Labor to Modern Learning

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Homework has a particularly nasty history in the United States. For anyone reading this article, it is safe to say that you endured some form of heinous educational torture that came in the form of homework. Homework has always been a point of controversy for me, and in American society.

Beginning in high school, I found homework to be part of a larger mechanism of…