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