aims and objectives

The title of this book was inspired by a historical event known as the Wannsee Conference. These "learned men" who gathered around a table and sipped brandy as they planned the annihilation of a people were laden with credentials. Graduates of the best universities in Central Europe, they were - by all usual standards - highly intelligent and quite successful pillars of their community.

In One Size Does Not Fit All, 17-year-old Nikhil Goyal offers a ground-breaking prescription for transforming American schools. Drawing from hundreds of interviews with renowned thinkers like Howard Gardner, Seth Godin, Daniel Pink, Noam Chomsky, Diane Ravitch, and Frank Bruni, Goyal calls to radically disciplinary curriculum to reinventing the teaching profession, his propositions are timely and provocative.

Explores the various issues surrounding secondary schools, discussing their history, curriculum, standardization, and commercialization; includes a list of selected print and nonprint resources.

A comprehensive guide to curriculum trends that describes a variety of strategies being used in twenty-first-century American schools and explains how they can improve students' educations.

Offers strategies for teachers and staff members that help them to provide authentic learning experiences for their students, learn to work together for common goals, participate in shared leadership, and collaborate with one another for a more balanced education.

A comprehensive collection of lessons designed to enhance professional success in the last two months of the school year.