The Homework Dilemma

I am starting this blog because after six years of teaching 7th grade math, I find homework to be a constant frustration. I know that kids don't enjoy it, and I want to make sure that, if I am assigning it, it has a purpose. I have tried so many different options, and still haven't settled on the best, most effective way to use homework. Should it be no homework, a flipped classroom, drill-and-kill (okay, not drill-and-kill), a few problems that involve more writing and problems solving, a lot of problems with a right or wrong answer, review problems but not new content, new content but no review? The homework dilemma has not been solved. Research does not point a clear path, so let's put our heads together, do some action research, and figure out what works.