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Author Martinez, Monica R.

Title Deeper learning : how eight innovative public schools are transforming education in the twenty-first century / Monica Martinez, Dennis McGrath
Published New York : New Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
Contents Connect -- Empower -- Contextualize -- Reach -- Inspire -- Wire -- Invest
Summary Studies suggest that up to half of high school dropouts leave school because their classes are boring or irrelevant to their lives and aspirations. Yet the majority of U.S. schools continue their attempts to engage some 50 million students through conventional methods such as lectures, note-taking, and rote learning, often with dismal results. In Deeper Learning, award-winning education strategist Monica Martinez and education sociologist Dennis McGrath offer a transformative framework for learning that has led to standout results in schools across the country and has the potential
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Public schools -- United States -- Case studies
Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States
Education -- Experimental methods.
School improvement programs -- United States -- Case studies
Educational change -- United States -- Case studies
EDUCATION -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
EDUCATION -- Experimental Methods.
EDUCATION -- Secondary.
EDUCATION -- Elementary.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Education -- Aims and objectives
Education -- Experimental methods
Educational change
Public schools
School improvement programs
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author McGrath, Dennis, 1946-
ISBN 9781595589941
1595589945