Who Invented Homework?
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It¡¯s time to lay some blame: who¡¯s the cruel, cruel
person who invented... HOMEWORK?!?!
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Transcription:
Narrator: Okay guys it's time to lay some blame. Who's
the cruel cruel person who invented homework? Let's find out on today's episode
of Colossal Questions.
In the past, getting an education was nothing like we
picture it today. No chalkboards, no recess, no assemblies or pizza parties.
Even no schoolhouses. That's right.
For most of history, children would receive their
schooling at home and only the rich and powerful could afford to educate their
kids. That's because most families were way too busy farming, working, and just
trying to get by and the kids needed to help.
Rich families and lords would pay tutors to come to
their home to teach their kids. Back then, kids weren't getting homework. If
you think about it, it's kind of hard to assign a kid homework when the whole
thing is happening at home. So, when did homework become the never-ending
nightly nightmare we know it as today?
It was in the 1950s that things started to change and
homework finally reared its ugly head. At the time, the U.S. was competing with
the Soviet Union and tried to get any competitive edge they could find.
One of the ways they wanted to get the upper hand was
by raising smarter kids. Teachers and school districts were encouraged to
assign more homework so that American students would outcompete their Soviet
counterparts. And grow up to be scientists and engineers. And by the 1950s less
families needed their kids to stay at home and work the fields. So there wasn't
a huge outcry from parents once the assignments started rolling in.
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Questions:
1. Who is being blamed for inventing homework in the
text?
2. According to the passage, when did homework become
a common practice?
3. What was the motivation behind increasing homework
assignments in the 1950s?