![]() ![]() ![]() In an effort to figure out what made these exceptional schools tick, they spent more than 750 hours in 30 high schools, ob-serving and interviewing students, teachers, parents, and administra-tors. ![]() Initially, they set out to study high schools that were truly engaging students, the ones that were helping students flourish. In Search of Deeper Learning was not the book that Professor Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine, Ed.M.’13, Ed.D’17, set out to write. “There is as much reason for excitement as caution as we turn our attention to the specific changes in the evolving reading brain that are happening now and may happen in different ways in a few short years,” she writes. Written as a series of long letters to the reader, Maryanne Wolf, Ed.D.’79, uses historical, literary, and scientific sources, as well as her own experiences as director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA, and (former) director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University, to look at what is happening to reading and the reading brain as it adapts to a digital culture. ![]()
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