Schools on trial
Subtitle: how freedom and creativity can fix our educational malpractice
By: by Nikhil Goyal
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780385540124
Subjects: School improvement programs; School environment; Alternative education
Description: "Are America's schools little more than cinder-block gulags that spawn vicious cliques and bullying, negate creativity, and true learning and squelch curiosity in their inmates, um, students? Nikhil Goyal, a journalist and activist all of twenty years old whom the Washington Post has dubbed a "future education secretary" and Forbes has named to its 30 Under 30 list, passionately thinks so, and in this book he offers both 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,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The radical notion that children are people; title: The disturbing origins of compulsory schooling; title: No child left uncontrolled; title: The right to learn freely; title: The right to play; title: Where children can be themselves; title: Not your father's shop class; title: Enrolling in the real world; title: School without walls.