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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (448 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674239951
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 373.0973 23
LOC classification:
  • LB2822.82 .M448 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 account of what education can be at its best.
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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

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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 account of what education can be at its best.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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