Some Teachers Implementing "Deep Learning" Classroom Approach

PBS NewsHour (1/31) broadcast a report on "deep learning," a teaching approach that is "less focused on testing, per se, and more on making sure that students are picking up skills they can apply in the real world." The piece notes that given the failure of the recent focus on standardized testing to improve academic outcomes or narrow the achievement gap, some teachers are working to "give students ways to apply their learning to bigger things than taking tests." PBS explains that the central idea is that "schoolwork can and should have a real-world application."