Works Cited Watkins, Paul J., and David W. Stevens. "The Goldilocks Dilemma: Homework Policy Creating a Culture Where Simply Good Is Just Not Good Enough." Clearing House, vol. 86, no. 2, 2013, pp. 80-85. http://muezproxy.marshall.edu:2059/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=85221661&site=ehost-live Accessed 25 Oct. 2016 In Goldilocks Dilemma it talks about how the homework situation in the school system is and the flaws. Teachers will give busy work instead of give knowledgeable working ethics to their students. This is not just the teachers fault most of the work sheets come from books that the students get the beginning of each school year. These books are pick and renewed every other year or more. These books go along with the way students are taught and that is the are given information that goes with a standardized test that they have to take each year. Teachers give their student homework not because they are mean but because it is there job to do so. Parents in the discussion think their child is given to much homework or not enough it goes both ways. I had a professor tell me a story like that and I totally agreed that sometimes they are doing to many work sheets and not …show more content…
Horace was called father of American public education he travelled to Prussia to look at the styles of teaching. Horace found the Prussia system and started to adopt the system it all started in Prussia also known as Germany. The Prussia curriculum spread around the world after it was adopted and then rules started to be made by the board. After all the things came into place children where then told that it was mandatory to go to school. So after this many more styles where then starting to be adopted into the school system. One of the first superintendent was Egerton Ryerson eh was from Canada found Horace to see about the Prussian