- Homework is shown to be pretty ineffective. It's mostly a tool that came into being with growing classroom sizes since teachers weren't able to give attention to the children. - Lots of studies about homework show that there's no correlation between homework and learning. - Most homework is designed either busywork to fill up time or to convince the teacher that the child knows something rather than trying to convince the child they know something. --- "in 2007 the education critic Alfie Kohn—whose many books include “The Homework Myth,” published in 2018—wrote that “there is absolutely no evidence of any academic benefit from assigning homework in elementary or middle school,” and that in high school “the correlation is weak and tends to disappear when more sophisticated statistical measures are applied." - [Link](http://newyorker.com/books/second-read/what-a-sixty-five-year-old-book-teaches-us-about-ai) "But most homework, when it is not pure busywork to fill up the children's time, is designed to convince the teacher, not the children, that they know something. And so it rarely does good, and usually does harm." - John Holt in [[How Children Fail]]