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

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 (twenty) writers of this subject

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, sic, students? Nikhil Goyal, an education activist all of twenty years old whomThe Washington Post has dubbed a "future education secretary," 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.

NIKHIL GOYAL is a thinker, activist, and the author of One Size Does Not Fit All (Alternative Education Resource Organization, 2012). He has appeared as a commentator on MSNBC, FOX and Friends, FOX Business, and NPR multiple times. He has written for The New York Times, MSNBC, NPR, Forbes, The Globe and Mail, The Nation, andPsychology Today. He has presented at the Clinton Global Initiative University, Google,The Atlantic, Fast Company, NBC, MIT, Stanford, Yale, University of Cambridge, Barnard College, SXSW, and other events around the world on education reform, changing higher education, empowering young people, self-branding, and social media. He is also a member of the board of directors of FairTest: The National Center for Fair & Open Testing.The Washington Post called Nikhil a "future education secretary." In 2012, he was named one of the "World Changers" for Dell #Inspire 100. He is also a member of the 2013 Forbes 30 Under 30 list andOrigin Magazine: The Nation's Top Creatives. He is also the recipient of a 2013 Freedom Flame Award. He lives in Woodbury, New York.