Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
By Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel
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Harvard University Press, 313 pp., $27.95
You may have noticed that recent research into the science of learning frequently overturns commonly held beliefs about how we learn. Make It Stick, written by cognitive scientists Roediger and McDaniel, with novelist Brown, presents a compelling case for why we are attracted to the wrong strategies for learning and teaching—and what we