What's So Funny About Education?,9780761939337

What's So Funny About Education?

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ISBN13: 9780761939337
ISBN10: 0761939334
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-05-23
Publisher(s): Corwin Pr
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Summary

Using affectionate humor, Fournier delivers both stark and subtle epiphanies alongside enduring truths, offering a deeper social commentary on the present conditions and future directions of American education.

Table of Contents

About the Author vii
About the Illustrator vii
Acknowledgments viii
Foreword ix
Dog Days of Leadership
1(4)
Get the Third Degree from EIT
5(4)
Quantum Connections and the Flea Market School
9(4)
How the Facts of Learning Sank the FAQs of Scripting
13(4)
Aisle Four: Frozen Food and Education
17(4)
Net Trek, Episode One: Voyage of the Browser
21(4)
Tonight's Episode of ``School Improvement''
25(6)
Live at the Interstate Internet Lounge
31(4)
Mortal Assessment Versus Overlord of Algebra
35(4)
Thinking Comes to College
39(4)
The Story of PINokio
43(4)
Instant Staff Development in Good Taste
47(4)
Dearth of a Salesman
51(4)
How the Schmall and the Marines Came to Schools
55(4)
The Truth of Teen Talk
59(4)
Home-School-Mall Connection
63(4)
My Big Appearance on Who Wants to Be a Staff Developer?
67(4)
Singin' the Blues for a Real Good Cause
71(4)
A Clearer Seer: The Education Prophecies of Nostracosa
75(4)
The Blazing Electrons' Winning Season
79(4)
To Spin, Perchance to Dream
83(4)
How Doc the Techie Saved Our School
87(104)
Totally Unrehearsed Techno Telemarketing
191
Here's the Windup and the Pitch!
95(4)
How to Win the Assessment Game and a Nice Toaster
99(4)
From Here to Perplexity
103(4)
Slim Spud and the Case of the Maltese Parakeet
107(4)
Where Mosquitoes and Teacher Salaries Came From
111(4)
Singin' in the School!
115(4)
Curriculum in the Castle
119(4)
The Techwreck Threat
123(6)
Getcher Higher Ed Right Here
129(6)
Sometimes You Can't Give Good Education Marketing Away
135(4)
The Curtain Rises on ProDevelopment Theatre
139(4)
Hot Thoughts From Idle Hands
143(4)
Elma Explains Education
147

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