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You\\u2019ve probably experienced this: it\\u2019s high school, the night before an exam, and you\\u2019ve got a 500-page textbook in your left hand and highlighters in your right hand. You have highlighted all the important information in the book, and there isn\\u2019t a whole lot of white space left. Unfortunately, you\\u2019re not sure that you\\u2019ve absorbed any of the material in a meaningful way.

Turns out, there is little evidence that highlighting and underlining material in books is a good strategy for successful learning, according to Ulrich Boser, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and the author of the book \\u201cLearn Better.\\u201d Boser talks to us about the science of learning, and how we can absorb information more effectively.