[zhengyi13]

I've thought of homework as having two disparate values:

1. Practice (again) what you've recently covered in class. More reps, greater ease and speed and fewer errors. I suppose the article's point about some students needing more support and feedback means this isn't really a good position, unless we (re-)introduce something like tracking, or we abandon the coarse divisions of grade levels.

2. Cram in more learning - I'm thinking back to college to the profs who started each day asking for questions about the previous nights' readings, and then launched directly into new material assuming you had full understanding of the prior stuff.

[cyberge99]

I would add developing “self discipline” as a third. It easy to do work when you’re at work. It’s not as easy to set aside fun stuff during personal time to do what needs to be done.

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Nobody does that. The busy stuff we do at home that's "job-like" is ALWAYS for our benefit or the benefit of the family.

Homeworks are way too often to please the teacher ego, especially after proving knowledge by acing some test.