Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational MalpracticeA devastating critique of the American way of education and a hopeful blueprint for change which can unlock the creativity and joy of learning inherent in all students. In this book Nikhil Goyal--a journalist and activist, whom The Washington Post has dubbed a "future education secretary" and Forbes has named to its 30 Under 30 list--both offers a 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 to harness children's natural aptitude for learning by creating an atmosphere conducive to freedom and creativity. He prescribes an inspiring educational future that is thoroughly democratic and experiential, and one that utilizes the entire community as a classroom. |
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User Review - Publishers WeeklyGoyal, a 20-year-old education reform activist and the 2013 recipient of the Freedom Flame Award, criticizes America's traditional schools, with their heavy focus on grades and standardized testing ... Read full review
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User Review - KirkusA journalist argues that conventional schools are oppressive, anti-democratic, and even harmful to children. Goyal (One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student's Assessment of School, 2012), currently an ... Read full review
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Radical Notion That Children Are People | 15 |
The Disturbing Origins of Compulsory Schooling | 37 |
No Child Left Uncontrolled | 57 |
The Right to Learn Freely | 90 |
The Right to Play | 113 |
Schools Where Children Can Be Themselves | 135 |
Not Your Fathers Shop Class | 184 |
Enrolling in the Real World | 210 |
School Without Walls | 242 |
Acknowledgments | 257 |
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Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice Nikhil Goyal No preview available - 2016 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice |
| Author | Nikhil Goyal |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2017 |
| ISBN | 1101910224, 9781101910221 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General Education / Learning Styles Social Science / Sociology / General |
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