One Size Does Not Fit All: A Student's Assessment of School - Softcover

Goyal, Nikhil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974525219 ISBN 13: 9780974525211

Publisher: Alternative Education Resource Organization, 2012

Synopsis

When Nikhil Goyal was seventeen-years-old, he wrote this book: One Size Does Not Fit All. It offers a groundbreaking prescription for transforming American schools. Drawing from hundreds of interviews with renowned thinkers like Howard Gardner, Seth Godin, Dan Pink, Noam Chomsky, Diane Ravitch, and Frank Bruni, he calls to radically redefine the way the country does schooling. From implementing an anti-disciplinary curriculum to reinventing the teaching profession, his propositions are timely and provocative. Goyal walks us through the tenets of the system, shattering claims dispersed in the education conversation.

Goyal presses questions like: What if we tailored education to every single child? What if students' voices were heard and seen as human beings, not numbers in a spreadsheet? What if school became an incubator of innovation and a bridge between the community and the world?

About this title

About the Author:

Nikhil Goyal is an activist and author. He lives in New York.

Review:

"Goyal paints a fairly clear picture as to what his ideal educational experience looks like."
-- Forbes

"What a wonderful book! I nominate Nikhil Goyal for the U.S. Secretary of Education!"
-- Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Education

"Nikhil Goyal is a leader among young people who are changing the world of education. Once you read this book, you will never view education the same way. Goyal represents the future -- which looks nothing like the past." -- Michael Ellsberg, bestselling author of The Education of Millionaires

"Nowadays, nearly every educator-pundit, Wall Street tycoon, and Hollywood mogul has his or her recipe for education in the 21st century. It's high time to learn the views and recommendations of a thoughtful young person. And what high school student Nikhil Goyal has to say, on the basis of his research, interviews, and reflections, is well worth pondering."
-- Howard Gardner, Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

About this edition

• Publisher: Alternative Education Resource Organization
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0974525219
• ISBN 13: 9780974525211
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208