Schools on Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our

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

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 Americaâ€™s schools little more than cinder-block gulags that spawn vicious cliques and bullying, negate creativity and true learning, andÂ squelch curiosity in their inmates, um, students?Â Nikhil Goyalâ€”a journalist and activist all ofÂ twenty years old, whom The Washington PostÂ has dubbed a â€œfuture education secretaryâ€ andÂ Forbes has named to its 30 Under 30 listâ€”definitely thinks so. In this book he both offersÂ 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 toÂ harness childrenâ€™s natural aptitude for learningÂ by creating an atmosphere conducive to freedom and creativity. He prescribes an inspiringÂ educational future that is thoroughly democraticÂ and experiential, and one that utilizes the entire community as a classroom.

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