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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 This blog is no longer being updated, but you can continue to explore these issues on edweek.org by visiting our related topic pages: student learning.

Standards & Accountability Opinion Models of Excellence: What Do Standards Really Look Like?
Clear visions of what high-quality student work looks like can enhance instruction and learning, says Ron Berger of Expeditionary Learning.
Contributing Blogger, April 20, 2015
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States Opinion Innovation in Action: State Pathways for Advancing Student-Centered Learning
As federal policy makers signal support for innovation, the time is ripe for state leadership. CCSSO just released a new resource to help state leaders build strategies that support innovation and improve outcomes for all students.
Contributing Blogger, April 17, 2015
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States Opinion Improving Accountability Systems to Create Internal Responsibility
How state systems of accountability can support doing good, not just looking good.
Contributing Blogger, April 15, 2015
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Education Opinion School and District Leadership for Transformation, Not Reform
Transforming schools and districts for deeper learning for all students requires a different set of abilities than those required in Industrial Age Schools, writes Carmen Coleman of the University of Kentucky's Center for Innovation.
Contributing Blogger, April 13, 2015
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Assessment Opinion The System Dynamics of Raising K-12 Standards
A systems-thinking approach helps explain the relationships among performance, proficiency , and standards--and how raising standards can mean lower proficiency rates but higher levels of performance.
Contributing Blogger, April 9, 2015
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5 min read
School & District Management Opinion Want Improvement? Get Serious About Systems
Systems thinking can address problems before they worsen and can turn a high-performing school into a school on fire.
Susan Fairchild, April 8, 2015
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4 min read
Assessment Opinion When High Schoolers Must Defend Graduation Readiness
A coach from Envision Education relates how a student's experience in defending his accomplishments in high school transformed his learning.
Contributing Blogger, April 1, 2015
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5 min read
Teaching Profession Opinion Designing a Curriculum for Deeper Learning
Depth, creativity, and reflection are the hallmarks of instructional design for deeper learning, according to Bob Lenz.
Contributing Blogger, March 31, 2015
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Teaching Opinion Memo to Hollywood: Students Can Accomplish Great Things
A new Hollywood movie about the unlikely triumph of a group of low-income students highlights the kind of project-based real-world learning that is becoming increasingly common.
Robert Rothman, March 27, 2015
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Assessment Opinion 'Thank God' for Competency-Based Education
The Granite State's pioneering accountability pilot makes performance assessment count.
Robert Rothman, March 26, 2015
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Assessment Opinion Opting Out? Look at the Tests First
A glance at performance tasks included on new tests show that they do a better job than previous tests of measuring higher-level competencies.
Robert Rothman, March 20, 2015
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4 min read
Teaching Profession Opinion Teaching in a Flat World
An examination of policies in four countries by Linda Darling-Hammond and Robert Rothman offers lessons for strengthening instructional quality.
Robert Rothman, March 18, 2015
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Standards & Accountability Opinion Bad at Math? It's Unacceptable
The specificity of math standards can limit understanding, but that can be overcome with creative instruction.
Contributing Blogger, March 16, 2015
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Education Opinion Gifted and Talented? Deeper Learning Is for All Students
Diverse gifts and talents emerge when students engage in deeper learning, argues the director of High Tech Middle Chula Vista.
Contributing Blogger, March 12, 2015
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