For many adults, December is filled with shopping, baking, and holiday magic making. Conversely, for secondary students, December is a moment of reckoning. Many students spend it wondering whether their first-semester study strategies are going to produce test-taking prowess. There is considerable pressure as semesters end and final exams begin. What if we researched the best ways for students to study, and then used that science to make December merrier for everyone? Luckily, the research and science part has already been done for us. Daniel Pink in his 2011 book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us , analyzes the gap between what science knows and what businesses do. Over ten years later, the science of learning and the practice of teaching are engaged in a similar showdown about reading . Over and over again, the pendulum swings, and teachers are caught in the middle with a classroom full of students and a daunting to-do list. Instead of engaging in the co...