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ProCon's editors write and verify new content and update existing content. ProCon was founded in 2004 with the mission to promote civility, critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting the pro and con arguments to debatable issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, freely accessible way.

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Homework
From dioramas and book reports to algebraic word problems and research projects, whether students should be given homework, as well as the type and amount of homework, has been debated for more than a century. While we are unsure who invented homework, the concept dates back to ancient Rome. Pliny…
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