Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Eight-year-olds spent twelve weeks in gym class tossing beanbags into buckets. Half threw at a bucket three feet away, every time. The other half practiced only at two and four feet, never three. Then everyone was tested at three feet, and the kids who had never practiced that throw won easily. That is Make It Stick in miniature: the practice that feels like it’s working usually isn’t. Peter Brown, a storyteller, wrote it with the cognitive psychologists Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel, who spent a decade carrying memory research into classrooms.

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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning