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In search of deeper learning : the quest to remake the American high school / Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mehta, Jal, author.
- Fine, Sarah M., 1983- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- High schools--United States--Administration--Case studies.
- High schools.
- Education--Experimental methods.
- Education.
- Education--Aims and objectives--United States--Case studies.
- School improvement programs--United States--Case studies.
- School improvement programs.
- High school environment--United States--Case studies.
- High school environment.
- Educational change--United States--Case studies.
- Educational change.
- Public schools--United States--Case studies.
- Public schools.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 456 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9780674239968
- 0674239962
- 9780674239951
- 0674239954
- OCLC:
- 1089729135
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