Rethinking readiness : deeper learning for college, work, and life /

Rethinking Readiness offers a new set of competencies to replace the narrow learning goals of No Child Left Behind and, in chapters written by some of the nation's most well-respected education scholars, explores their implications for schools. Today's students must cultivate the full rang...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Heller, Rafael (Editor), Wolfe, Rebecca E. (Editor), Steinberg, Adria (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Student-centered learning > United States. Experiential learning > United States. High school teaching > United States. Career education > United States. Educational change > United States. Education, Secondary > Aims and objectives > United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Rafael Heller, Rebecca E. Wolfe, and Adria Steinberg
Part One. The purposes and goals of secondary education
1. How we got here: the imperative for deeper learning / Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine
2. The power of work-based learning / Nancy Hoffman
3. Preparing for civic life / Peter Levine and Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg
Part Two. Access and opportunity
4. Equal opportunity for deeper learning / Pedro Noguera, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Diane Friedlaender
5. Deeper learning for students with disabilities / Sharon Vughn, Louis Danielson, Rebecca Zumeta Edmonds, and Lynn Holdheide
6. Deeper learning for English language learners / Patricia Gandara
Part Three. School improvement for deeper learning
7. Ambitious teaching: a deep dive / Magdalene Lampert
8. District leadership for deeper learning / Meredith I. Honig and Lydia R. Rainey
9. Toward systems of assessments for deeper learning / David T. Conley
10. Deeper learning in the age of ESSA: ideas and recommendations / Rafael Heller, Rebecca E. Wolfe, and Adria Steinberg.