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About Josh Eyler

Author of *How Humans Learn* (2018) and *Failing Our Future* (forthcoming in 2024). Faculty and Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning at the University of Mississippi. Connoisseur of gumbo and Pixar films.

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