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Nikhil Goyal

Nikhil Goyal is the author of the new book Schools On Trial: How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice, which was published by Doubleday, an imprint of Random House, this month.

Bernie Sanders, Noam Chomsky (AP/John Minchillo/Reuters/Jorge Dan/Photo montage by Salon)

Noam Chomsky for secretary of education: Bernie Sanders needs to make this revolutionary call for our public schools

Nikhil Goyal
Arne Duncan, John King, Barack Obama (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Another Common Core disaster: Corporate-education reformer John King is exactly the wrong man to be secretary of education

Nikhil Goyal
George W. Bush, Bill Gates, Arne Duncan (AP/Charles Dharapak/Ted S. Warren/Andrew Harnik)

Corporate reformers wreck public schools: Billionaire foundations and Wall Street financiers are not out to help your kids learn

Nikhil Goyal