Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Rafael Heller, Rebecca E. Wolfe, and Adria Steinberg -- Part One. The purposes and goals of secondary education -- 1. How we got here: the imperative for deeper learning / Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine -- 2. The power of work-based learning / Nancy Hoffman -- 3. Preparing for civic life / Peter Levine and Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg -- Part Two. Access and opportunity -- 4. Equal opportunity for deeper learning / Pedro Noguera, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Diane Friedlaender -- 5. Deeper learning for students with disabilities / Sharon Vughn, Louis Danielson, Rebecca Zumeta Edmonds, and Lynn Holdheide -- 6. Deeper learning for English language learners / Patricia Gandara -- Part Three. School improvement for deeper learning -- 7. Ambitious teaching: a deep dive / Magdalene Lampert -- 8. District leadership for deeper learning / Meredith I. Honig and Lydia R. Rainey -- 9. Toward systems of assessments for deeper learning / David T. Conley -- 10. Deeper learning in the age of ESSA: Ideas and recommendations / Rafael Heller, Rebecca E. Wolfe, and Adria Steinberg.

Rethinking Readiness offers a new set of competencies to replace the narrow learning goals of No Child Left Behind and, in chapters written by some of the nation's most well-respected education scholars, explores their implications for schools. Today's students must cultivate the full range of intellectual, interpersonal, and intrapersonal capacities that have been grouped together under the banner of "deeper learning." Rethinking Readiness focuses on how educators and policy makers should move forward to provide the educational experiences that students need to become truly well prepared for college, careers, and civic life, including changes in curriculum, teacher evaluation, and student assessment. As state leaders chart a new course for K-12 education in the Every Student Succeeds Act era, Rethinking Readiness offers a succinct and compelling vision for a new agenda for school reform so future generations can prosper in a rapidly changing world.-- Provided by publisher.