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    By Jal Mehta
    February 2017
    Vol. 38 No. 1
    On how the way we learn naturally should influence professional learning in education: “You have to think that, at some point, the way in which people learn outside of school — with like-minded others, around topics they care about, with people of varying levels of expertise, in networks that reach out in all directions — will penetrate how both students and adults learn in schools.” Find the full Q&A with Jal Mehta at www.learningforward.org/learningprofessional.  

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    Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education | + posts

    Jal Mehta is a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His work focuses on educational practices and policies that promote deep and meaningful learning. He has also conducted extensive research on the education workforce. He is the author of In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School (Harvard University Press, 2019) and The Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling (Oxford University Press, 2013).


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