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Learning Deeply

In this blog, organized by Harvard education professor Jal Mehta and Washington-based education writer Robert Rothman, students, teachers, administrators, researchers, and policymakers explored the practice and policy issues around expanding deeper learning. This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: student learning.

Equity & Diversity Opinion Thinking Deeply About Equity
The stories of Deeper Learning Equity Fellows show varied experiences and approaches to the problem of ensuring that all students have access to deeper learning.
Contributing Blogger, March 4, 2016
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School & District Management Opinion Five Secrets to Operationalize Deeper Learning
The executive director of Envision Learning Partners outlines the structural and functional shifts in schools necessary for deeper learning to thrive.
Contributing Blogger, March 2, 2016
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Leaders as Learners: Exploring Equity
By immersing themselves in a real-world project, as students are expected to do, a group of education leaders learn deeply about equity.
Contributing Blogger, February 29, 2016
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School & District Management Opinion How Improvement Science Is Leading to Gains at an Urban High School
A New York City school has developed a systematic way of identifying and tracking interventions designed to raise the school's graduation rate to 94 percent.
Contributing Blogger, February 25, 2016
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School & District Management Opinion The Relentless Nature of Improving Daily Attendance
A New York City high school shows how a systemic approach toward reducing absenteeism can help improve the school's graduation rate.
Contributing Blogger, February 23, 2016
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Assessment Opinion How to Turn Low Performance Around: Lessons From PISA
A new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development identifies the characteristics of students who perform poorly on an international test.
Robert Rothman, February 18, 2016
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Assessment Opinion Assessing Deeper Learning: New Evidence About Common-Core Tests
Two new studies provide heartening information about the extent to which new assessments measure deeper-learning competencies.
Robert Rothman, February 16, 2016
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Education Opinion Using a Writers' Workshop Model to Foster Deeper Learning
A science fiction project at High Tech High International enabled students to share ideas and learn from one another.
Contributing Blogger, February 8, 2016
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Equity & Diversity Opinion Race, Housing, and Deeper Learning
A project at High Tech Middle North County on housing opened students' eyes to the persistence of social inequality.
Contributing Blogger, February 5, 2016
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Education Opinion Deeper Learning, Metacognition, and Presentations of Learning
Student presentations at High Tech High show that young people are capable of reflecting on their own learning and can identify their strengths and what they need to work on.
Contributing Blogger, February 4, 2016
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School & District Management Opinion Making Human-Centered Systems Design Work in Education
While design and systems thinking hold promise for education, the challenge is that there is not one "user" for whom the design should fit, nor a single goal to be achieved.
Contributing Blogger, February 3, 2016
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Teaching Profession Opinion Candid Perspectives on Teacher Change: Two New Papers on Deeper Learning
Two new papers offer a nuanced perspective on the challenges of breaking through the inertia of traditional teaching practice.
Contributing Blogger, January 27, 2016
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School & District Management Opinion Moving Through Deeper Learning at Your Own Pace
A Massachusetts school shows a way to design a structure to enable students to move at their own pace--and avoid the shame of falling behind--writes Kathleen Cushman.
Contributing Blogger, January 21, 2016
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Student Well-Being & Movement Opinion 3 Ways to Keep Shame From Blocking Deeper Learning
Kathleen Cushman discusses classroom practices that reduce students' sense of humiliation and enable them to engage in learning.
Contributing Blogger, January 19, 2016
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