num_pages: 464
description: The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read.Jay Mathews Washington PostAn award-winning professor and an accomplished educator take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of Americas most innovative classrooms to show what is workingand what isntin our schools.What would it take to transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fines quest to answer this question took them inside some of Americas most innovative schools and classroomsplaces where educators are rethinking both what and how students should learn.The story they tell is alternately discouraging and hopeful. Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at thirty different schools Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they find pockets of powerful learning at almost every school often in electives and extracurriculars as well as in a few mold-breaking academic courses. These spaces achieve depth the authors argue because they emphasize purpose and choice cultivate community and draw on powerful traditions of apprenticeship. These outliers suggest that it is difficult but possible for schools and classrooms to achieve the integrations that support deep rigor with joy precision with play mastery with identity and creativity.This boldly humanistic book offers a rich account of what education can be. The first panoramic study of American public high schools since the 1980s In Search of Deeper Learning lays out a new vision for American educationone that will set the agenda for schools of the future.
language: English
title: In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School
publisher: Harvard University Press