Schools on Trial
How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice
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Erschienen am 16. Februar 2016
320 Seiten
978-0-385-54013-1 (ISBN)
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Schools on Trial is an all-in attack on the American way of education and a hopeful blueprint for change by one of the most passionate and certainly youngest writers on this subject. Are America's schools little more than cinder-block gulags that spawn vicious cliques and bullying, negate creativity and true learning, andsquelch curiosity in their inmates, um, students?Nikhil Goyala journalist and activist all oftwenty years old, whom The Washington Posthas dubbed a ';future education secretary' andForbes has named to its 30 Under 30 listdefinitely thinks so. In this book he both offersa scathing indictment of our teach-to-the-test-while-killing-the-spirit educational assembly line and maps out a path for all of our schools toharness children's natural aptitude for learningby creating an atmosphere conducive to freedom and creativity. He prescribes an inspiringeducational future that is thoroughly democraticand experiential, and one that utilizes the entire community as a classroom.
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Nikhil Goyal is a journalist who has appeared on MSNBC and FOX and has written for The New York Times, MSNBC, The Nation, and other publications. Goyal has also had speaking engagements with the Clinton Global Initiative University, Google, Stanford, the University of Cambridge, SXSW, and the LEGO Foundation, among others. In 2013, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. He is also a recipient of the 2013 Freedom Flame Award. He lives in New York.
