#  Jal Mehta 

Professor of Education

 

 

 



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*Research interests*: What it would take to create high quality schooling at scale, with a particular interest in the professionalization of teaching.

 Mehta is currently working on two projects: *The Chastened Dream*, a history of the effort to link social science with social policy to achieve social progress; and *In Search of Deeper Learning*, a contemporary study of schools, systems, and nations that are seeking to produce ambitious instruction.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Faculty department
    
     [Harvard Graduate School of Education](/faculty-department/harvard-graduate-school-education)
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