In Search of Deeper Learning : : The Quest to Remake the American High School / / Sarah Fine, Jal Mehta.

An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator, Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America’s most innovative classrooms to show what is working—and what isn’t. In a world where test scores have been king, this boldly humanistic book offers a rich a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (448 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The State of Deeper Learning in American High Schools
  • 2. The Progressive Frontier: Project-Based Learning
  • 3. No Excuses Schools: Benefits and Tradeoffs
  • 4. International Baccalaureate: A System for Deeper Learning?
  • 5. The Comprehensive High School: Performance versus Learning
  • 6. Deeper Learning at the Margins: Why the Periphery Is More Vital than the Core
  • 7. Deeper Teaching: Rigor, Joy, and Apprenticeship
  • 8. Mastery, Identity, Creativity, and the Future of Schooling
  • APPENDIX: METHODOLOGY
  • NOTES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INDEX