Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Jan 10, 2017 - Education - 320 pages
A 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.
 

Contents

The Radical Notion That Children Are People
1
The Disturbing Origins of Compulsory Schooling
37
3
38
No Child Left Uncontrolled
57
The Right to Learn Freely
90
5
91
The Right to Play
113
6
122
Enrolling in the Real World
210
School Without Walls Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes
284
Selected Bibliography
285
Index
291
I
293
སྐཥིཥིརྗ ུཎྜ ུལྦ ིི ིི ི ིི རྨ 15
294
113
295
210
296

Schools Where Children Can Be Themselves
135
7
139
Not Your Fathers Shop Class
184

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About the author (2017)

Nikhil Goyal is a PhD candidate in Sociology of Education at the University of Cambridge and 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, 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. Goyal holds a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil) in Education degree from the University of Cambridge.

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