Teaching Students to Work Harder and Enjoy It Practice Makes Permanent points out a single fundamental and easilycorrected flaw that has held back American education for nearly a centuryampmdashthe design of instruction to achieve familiarization instead of mastery. This book explains the psychological dynamics and methods involved in mastery and how to apply them easily in K12 learning. A basic insight is that once students have a correct answer to any question a straight road to its mastery is entirely comprised of practice. Practice continues to ampldquomake perfectamprdquo in all skill areas including the accumulation of a body of knowledge. Outlined here are the forms of it that enable students to master academic learning perfectly and permanently as well as become competent with socialemotional skills and alter their behavior. A combination of methods especially valuable for students falling behind can turn classrooms around quickly.