Deeper Learning for All: Designing a 21st-Century School System

Harvard HGSE

From the classroom to the statehouse, education discussions today are rife with the idea that all students should graduate from high school "college and career ready," able to do the kind of advanced critical thinking that is so necessary for participation in modern life. But these expectations are placed on a school system that is not remotely equipped to realize them. American schooling assumed its modern form at the beginning of the 20th century and still bears the heavy imprint…