The Atlantic Monthly By Jonathan Ruch Summary

In his article for “The Atlantic Monthly”, Jonathan Rauch asserts that homework would have a significant impact on the quality of graduating students. His position of increasing homework and the amount of time spent studying outside of the classroom is well supported by both school administrators and an educational psychologist. Jonathan Rauch also points out that schools can make adjustments to their programs of instruction, but cannot do so without protest from either parents or the students. He shows that the children in the United States are lazy and parents could do more for them instead of relying on the school. Parents complain about how the schools instruct and when they try to change. Parents cannot have it both ways.
Mr. Rauch spends a lot of time in his essay talking about how homework would fix the academic issues and bring the United States off the bottom of the list of surveyed countries. One thing that he does not mention is how to get students to do their homework in the first place. He does state that the schools should emphasize homework or …show more content…
If the students are not working on the current amount of homework than increasing the expectations will not make a positive change. Parents complain about the homework impeding on their time at home, but the parents should be making sure that their child is completing the assigned work. Parents need to set the example that hard work is required rather than showing that you can get out of doing something by complaining about it. Instead parents should treat school and homework like a job. Holding the child accountable for the work, just like a manager would in a company, would teach the children that they need to put forth an effort to get the reward. Extracurricular activities are not a requirement, they are a luxury. Parents need to teach their children that their education is a