![]() An anti-homework campaign burst forth that grew into a national crusade. The Journal was an influential magazine, especially with parents. Stanley Hall (who has since been largely discredited), Bok argued that study at home interfered with children’s natural inclination towards play and free movement, threatened children’s physical and mental health, and usurped the right of parents to decide activities in the home. Drawing on the theories of his fellow educational progressive, psychologist G. In 1900, Edward Bok, editor of the Ladies Home Journal, published an impassioned article, “A National Crime at the Feet of Parents,” accusing homework of destroying American youth. Homework! The topic, no, just the word itself, sparks controversy. Part II of the 2014 Brown Center Report on American Education
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