In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School 9780674239951

An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator, Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine take us beyond the hype of reform and

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Table of contents :
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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