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In Search of Deeper Learning

Inside the Effort to Remake the American High School

By: Jal Mehta,Sarah Fine

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In Search of Deeper Learning

Inside the Effort to Remake the American High School

By: Jal Mehta,Sarah Fine

The best book on high school dynamics I have ever read."--Jay Mathews, Washington Post An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America's most innovative classrooms to show what is working--and what isn't--in our schools. What would it take to transform industrial-era schools into modern organizations capable of supporting deep learning for all? Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine's quest to answer this question took them inside some of America's most innovative schools and classrooms--places where educators are rethinking both what and how students should learn. The story they tell is alternately discouraging and hopeful. Drawing on hundreds of hours of observations and interviews at thirty different schools, Mehta and Fine reveal that deeper learning is more often the exception than the rule. And yet they find pockets of powerful learning at almost every school, often in electives and extracurriculars as well as in a few mold-breaking academic courses. These spaces achieve depth, the authors argue, because they emphasize purpose and choice, cultivate community, and draw on powerful traditions of apprenticeship. These outliers suggest that it is difficult but possible for schools and classrooms to achieve the integrations that support deep learning: rigor with joy, precision with play, mastery with identity and creativity. This boldly humanistic book offers a rich account of what education can be. The first panoramic study of American public high schools since the 1980s, In Search of Deeper Learning lays out a new vision for American education--one that will set the agenda for schools of the future.

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Harvard University Press

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0674988396

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The Allure of Order

High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling

By: Jal Mehta

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The Allure of Order

High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling

By: Jal Mehta

In The Allure of Order, Mehta recounts a century of attempts at revitalizing public education, and puts forward a truly new agenda to reach this elusive goal. Over and over again, outsiders have been fascinated by the promise of scientific management and have attempted to apply principles of rational administration from above. What we want, Mehta argues, is the opposite approach which characterizes top-performing educational nations: attract strong candidates into teaching, develop relevant and usable knowledge, train teachers extensively in that knowledge, and support these efforts through a strong welfare state.

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Oxford University Press

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0190231459

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The Allure of Order

High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling

By: Jal Mehta

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High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling

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In Search of Deeper Learning

Inside the Effort to Remake the American High School

By: Jal Mehta,Sarah Fine

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War Child

A Child Soldier's Story

By: Emmanuel Jal

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War Child

A Child Soldier's Story

By: Emmanuel Jal

This extraordinary memoir tells the true story of a former child soldier, who survived and escaped a violent life to become Africa's number-one hip-hop artist and an international ambassador for children in war-torn countries.

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Macmillan

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0312383223

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9780312383220

With Cyclists Around the World

By: Adi B. Hakim,Rustom B. Bhumgara,Jal P. Bapasola

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With Cyclists Around the World

By: Adi B. Hakim,Rustom B. Bhumgara,Jal P. Bapasola

Travelling 44,000 miles, at times in 140'F heat - for days without food, at times without water, at times in pirate-infested territories, at times in swamp-lands - they cycled through dense jungles and notched up many 'firsts' while pedalling round the globe. They were the first to cycle the world - six young boys from Bombay Weightlifting Club, who started this journey of adventure on 15 October 1923. Crossing the deserts of Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria and Sinai, they became the first globetrotters to cover the most arduous journey of their lives in four years and five months. A must-read story of adventure and endurance.

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351

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Roli Books Private Limited

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9351940977

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9789351940975

Essays on Marxism and Asia

By: Murzban Jal

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Essays on Marxism and Asia

By: Murzban Jal

Essays on Marxism and Asia begins with the largely forgotten prophet of ancient Iran Zarathushtra, remembered and immortalised by Friedrich Nietzsche’s Also Sprach Zarathustra. In contrast to the infamous clash of civilisation thesis, this book argues for a humanist theory of civilisations and studies the Parsis or Persians who left Iran to settle in India and make it their home. It claims that Parsis, despite being a migrant community, took strength from their Persian heritage and civilisation and rose to become the architects of industrial modernity in India. This book locates this humanist theory in the larger genre of the Asiatic mode of production with caste as its sub- text. It then takes a phenomenological reading of caste in India and says that India is afflicted by a very strange illness called ‘silent blindness’ where humanity is silenced and blinded in front of the caste apparatus. It then analyzes how capitalism and modernity fashioned caste in the image of capitalism and how the Indian right- wing imagined its fascistic politics of race and racial superiority based on the image of caste hierarchy. The problem in India has been that the liberals could not take caste seriously so as to confront it and then annihilate this violent apartheid structure. This, the book argues, has led to the rise of fascism in India. The book concludes with positing two different strands of secularism, namely liberal or bourgeois secularism which merely separates religion and the state (but mixes these when required) and revolutionary secularism which humanises religion and politics first in order to find the human and class content in both. The chapters in this book were originally published in Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory.

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Routledge

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1000479579

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9781000479577

Rampage

The Social Roots of School Shootings

By: Katherine S. Newman,Cybelle Fox,David Harding,Jal Mehta,Wendy Roth

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Rampage

The Social Roots of School Shootings

By: Katherine S. Newman,Cybelle Fox,David Harding,Jal Mehta,Wendy Roth

In the last decade, school shootings have decimated communities and terrified parents, teachers, and children in even the most "family friendly" American towns and suburbs. These tragedies appear to be the spontaneous acts of troubled, disconnected teens, but this important book argues that the roots of violence are deeply entwined in the communities themselves. Rampage challenges the "loner theory" of school violence, and shows why so many adults and students miss the warning signs that could prevent it. Drawing on more than 200 interviews with town residents, distinguished sociologist Katherine Newman and her co-authors take the reader inside two of the most notorious school shootings of the 1990s, in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and Paducah, Kentucky. In a powerful and original analysis, she demonstrates that the organizational structure of schools "loses" information about troubled kids, and the very closeness of these small rural towns restrained neighbors and friends from communicating what they knew about their problems. Her conclusions shed light on the ties that bind in small-town America.

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140

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Basic Books

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0786722371

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9780786722372

Indian Recipes for Western Kitchens

By: Homai Jal Moos

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Indian Recipes for Western Kitchens

By: Homai Jal Moos

This early work will delight cooks and food historians alike. A little book of Indian recipes that was intended to introduce some Indian dishes to the Western palate. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Cope Press

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1445516179

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Book's by Jal Mehta

In Search of Deeper Learning

In Search of Deeper Learning

The Allure of Order

The Allure of Order

The Allure of Order

The Allure of Order

In Search of Deeper Learning

In Search of Deeper Learning

War Child

War Child

With Cyclists Around the World

With Cyclists Around the World

Essays on Marxism and Asia

Essays on Marxism and Asia

Rampage

Rampage

Indian Recipes for Western Kitchens

Indian Recipes for Western Kitchens

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