Twenty-year old Nikhil Goyal is a journalist and educational activist with some serious chops. When Goyal criticizes the American education system, he combines firsthand experience as a student with meticulous research into educational theory and practice. This is not his first attempt to wrestle with the leviathon of public education; he was seventeen when he wrote his first book, One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student’s Assessment of School, and just graduated from a highly rated, wealthy suburban New York high school that left him feeling like he had escaped from a gulag. Since then he's pursued his passion for investigative journalism and educational reform, speaking at many forums, appearing on television and radio, and writing for publications from the New York Times to Psychology Today. His new book indicts the teach-to-the-test environment and the corporate mentality that is destroying curiosity, creativity and the joy of learning in our kids.
Click HERE to read a review from Publishers Weekly.
Click HERE to read a review from Kirkus Reviews.
Click HERE to read Goyal's recent article in Salon.
Click HERE to view Goyal's "Would Einstein Get Into Harvard Today?" at TEDxFrontRange in 2013.
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