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Compelling...Delightful as well as convincing in its plea that educators place learning over winnowing and access over exclusivity. --Kirkus (starred review) A remarkable book, both lively and scholarly. I strongly recommend it for anyone interested in the history of ideas about learning and who is interested in improving teaching and learning. --Henry L. Roediger, III, coauthor of Make it Stick An amazing book... The authors provide an overview of the neural and cognitive processes that support learning...They make a convincing case that students have an amazing capacity to learn. --Robert A. Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology, UCLA Sarma's book may be the most important work on education written this century. --The Skeptic

Compelling. . . . Delightful as well as convincing in its plea that educators place learning over winnowing and access over exclusivity. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A remarkable book, both lively and scholarly. I strongly recommend it for anyone interested in the history of ideas about learning and interested in improving teaching and learning. -Henry L. Roediger III, coauthor of Make It Stick An amazing book . . . The authors provide an overview of the neural and cognitive processes that support learning . . . They make a convincing case that students have an amazing capacity to learn. -Robert A. Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology, UCLA Grasp is an absolute pleasure to read. . . . An important contribution to the literature on learning science and higher education change. . . . Grasp can provide the foundations of what learning science-informed teaching might look like, with some fantastic real-world examples. -Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed Sarma's book may be the most important work on education written this century. -Chris Edwards, The Skeptic

Compelling...Delightful as well as convincing in its plea that educators place learning over winnowing and access over exclusivity. --Kirkus (starred review) A remarkable book, both lively and scholarly. I strongly recommend it for anyone interested in the history of ideas about learning and who is interested in improving teaching and learning. --Henry L. Roediger, III, coauthor of Make it Stick An amazing book... The authors provide an overview of the neural and cognitive processes that support learning...They make a convincing case that students have an amazing capacity to learn. --Robert A. Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology, UCLA

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Sanjay Sarma is the head of Open Learning at MIT. A professor of mechanical engineering by training, he has worked in the fields of energy and transportation, computational geometry, and computer-assisted design, and has been a pioneer in RFID technology. He has an undergraduate degree from IIT Kanpur as well as advanced degrees from Carnegie Mellon and the University of California, Berkeley.   Luke Yoquinto is a science writer who covers learning and education, as well as aging and demographic change, in his role as a researcher at the MIT AgeLab. His work can be found in publications such as The Washington Post, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. He is a graduate of Boston University’s science journalism program.

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