Nikhil Goyal

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This post was originally published on Education Nation's The Learning Curve blog.

In the education reform conversation, we have heard from educators, parents, administrators, and policymakers, but we are missing the most authentic, indispensable voice -- the student. It troubles me that the people most affected by the...

In less than 48 hours, Invisible Children successfully hijacked social media with their effort called KONY 2012, which targets the Lord's Resistance Army and its leader, Joseph Kony, a brutal fighter wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. By tapping into the nitwitted populace of the youth...

During the Super Bowl last Sunday, a particular commercial struck a chord with me. It was Chrysler's "Halftime in America" ad starring actor Clint Eastwood.

Eastwood, the face of rugged American individualism, spoke about "tough eras" and "downturns" and "times when we didn't understand each other," but then declared:

But...

Let's play a game. Can you figure out who said the following?

"...Teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren't helping kids learn."

Was it Diane Ravitch? No! Alfie Kohn? Sorry! Charlie Sheen? Are you nuts?

The answer is President...

Barack Obama was raised by a single mother. Steve Jobs was raised by his two adoptive parents. Obama graduated from Harvard Law School. Jobs dropped out of Reed College. Obama ran for U.S. Senate. Jobs started Apple. Obama won the presidential election. Jobs invented things.

Obama read the polls. Jobs...

This blog post was written by a member of the National Forensic League, a national honor society which encourages students to participate in debate and public speaking.

It's nine p.m. Your eight year-old daughter is knawing at her Dixon Ticonderoga No. 2 pencil...

When Steve Jobs was a young child, his adoptive father passed along his love of mechanics and cars to him, instilling a sense of design that would follow him for the rest of his life. Jobs gained an appreciation for the slightest details, exemplifying it in his future creations, from...

The United States education system really sucks. We continue to toil in a 19th century factory-based model of education, stressing conformity and standardization. This is all true even though globalization has transformed the world we live in, flipping the status quo of the labor market upside down. The education system...