First, practice - the nature and importance of practice -- Accumulate knowledge: US education subverts mastered knowledge -- Practice requires effort: the essential place of focused effort -- Effort in the inner venue: connect learning to effort inside the mind -- Practice by explaining: the central role of explaining learning -- Developing a mental field: what comprehension looks like inside -- Practice saves prior learning: the cycle of deepening understanding -- Practice behavioral knowledge - knowing as the first step to doing -- Students talk meaning: how to help students express what's important -- Practice on substantial topics: weight fundamental issues -- Score the results objectively: how scoring can energize learning -- More ways to use scoring: tracking progress on many fronts -- Practice for performance the motivational spur from performing -- The high school vise: four problems working around limitations -- Seven steps to turn a class around key levers for a distracted class.