In Search of Deeper Learning

Jal Mehta

Sarah Fine

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• At Forbes, read Jal Mehta’s thoughts on how parents can motivate the new population of forced homeschoolers
• Read an Education Next interview with Mehta
• Read an Education Dive “deep dive” into Sarah Fine’s research and experience at San Diego, California’s High Tech High
• At the Los Angeles Times, read Mehta and Fine on how to better cultivate mastery, creativity, and identity among American high school students
• In the New York Times, read Mehta and Fine’s case for why (and how!) “high school doesn’t have to be boring”; a follow-up feature which asks students directly: “Do You Like School?”; and responses from students and from the general public
• Read an excerpt from In Search of Deeper Learning at the American education policy site The 74
• Read an interview with Mehta and Fine at The 74
• On the podcast Reimagine Schools, listen to Sarah Fine discuss how the “deeper learning” principles of identity, mastery, and creativity can provide powerful learning opportunities, with the most robust learning discovered within the peripheral spaces of electives, clubs, and extracurricular activities over the traditional classroom setting
• On WAMC (Albany, NY)’s To the Best of Our Knowledge, listen to Mehta and Fine discuss what the most engaging high schools do right, how U.S. public schools could change to better serve their students, and the future of Common Core curriculum standards
• At Edutopia, learn the key strategies Fine and Mehta found teachers using to create powerful learning experiences
• At The 74, read an exploration of “playing the whole game” (a project-based approach to curriculum) and how it results in what Mehta and Fine call “deeper” learning
• At Education Dive, read a feature on High Tech High, where Fine is a faculty member, and the teacher preparation essential to the success of its “immersive” approach to curriculum
• At CommonWealth, read about Massachusetts Commissioner of Education Jeff Riley’s June 2019 report to the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, which draws on findings from In Search of Deeper Learning
• At Chalkbeat, read Sarah Fine’s critique of the trendy, authoritarian “No Excuses” school model, and her case for raising the “ceiling” of what schooling can be rather than focusing entirely on the “floor”
• Listen to Mehta discuss his and Fine’s findings on WAMC’s The Roundtable
• At KQED’s MindShift, read a distillation of Mehta and Fine’s findings on how to promote student engagement in the curriculum both at the individual teacher and at the school administration level
• Listen to the Fine and Mehta discuss deeper learning on the education podcasts The 10-Minute Teacher Podcast (Fine), Getting Smart (Mehta), and Modern Learners (both)
• In the New York Daily News, read Fine and Mehta’s case for “radically different educational institutions for our young people”
• Watch Fine explain the concept of “deeper learning” on KPBS (San Diego)’s Evening Edition
• On the Harvard Graduate School of Education podcast EdCast, listen to Mehta and Fine describe the difference between rigorous and meaningful learning
• Listen to Mehta define “deeper learning” on the Fordham Institute podcast Education Gadfly
• Read a multipart Washington Post feature on In Search of Deeper Learning’s depressing findings at even the most prestigious American high schools: Part 1: Empty-Headed Classes | Part 2: How Extracurriculars Get It Right | Part 3: Overcoming Tedium
• Read Mehta and Fine’s conversation with the Harvard Graduate School of Education blog Usable Knowledge
• Listen to Fine discuss with Minnesota Public Radio how high schools can partner with local employers to better engage students in education that seems truly relevant to them
• Browse the Massachusetts Department of Education’s feature page on deeper learning, and apply to the Kaleidoscope Collective for Learning pilot program intended to support deeper-learning in individual schools or entire districts
• Watch Mehta present In Search of Deeper Learning at the American Enterprise Institute
• Read a Harvard Gazette Q&A with Mehta
• Read a Harvard Magazine feature on In Search of Deeper Learning

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