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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 Americas 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 childrens 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.
