Advancing Deeper Learning Under ESSA: Seven Priorities
Advancing Deeper Learning Under ESSA: Seven Priorities This brief recommends seven ways for supporters of deeper learning to take advantage of the changing education policy landscape, as authority shifts from the federal government to states…
Anytime, Anywhere: Student-Centered Learning for Schools and Teachers
Anytime, Anywhere: Student-Centered Learning for Schools and Teachers By profiling schools that have successfully embraced student-centered learning, *Anytime, Anywhere* synthesizes existing research and practices in this emerging field. Order the Anytime, Anywhere: Student-Centered Learning for…
Rethinking Readiness: Deeper Learning for College, Work, and Life
Rethinking Readiness: Deeper Learning for College, Work, and Life *Rethinking Readiness: Deeper Learning for College, Work, and Life* offers a provocative look at how high schools can help students become truly prepared for college, career,…
An Introduction to the Deeper Learning Series
An Introduction to the Deeper Learning Series This publication presents the executive summaries of 11 papers in the Students at the Center Deeper Learning Research Series. Each report offers a provocative but even-handed perspective on…
Possible Futures
JFF’s Possible Futures prepares learners in grades 6 through 10 for the future. Access and exposure to productive, family-supporting work play a critical role in our lives. However, as the labor market changes, fewer educators…
The Role of Digital Technologies in Deeper Learning
The Role of Digital Technologies in Deeper Learning To compete in today’s global, knowledge-based, and innovation-centered economy, young people must go beyond a high school diploma and acquire not just academic knowledge, but interpersonal and…
Equity in Competency Education: Realizing the Potential, Overcoming the Obstacles
Equity in Competency Education: Realizing the Potential, Overcoming the Obstacles Equity is both a central goal and fundamental value of competency education. Competency-based approaches are designed to promote equity by preventing students from falling behind…
A New Era for Educational Assessment
A New Era for Educational Assessment Among education researchers, there is a growing consensus that college and career readiness depends on not just academic knowledge and skills but on a wide range of social and…
The Past and the Promise: Today's Competency Education Movement
The Past and the Promise: Today's Competency Education Movement Competency education is attracting significant interest as a promising way to help meet our national priority of ensuring that all young people are ready for college…