In this article, the author talks about pseudoscientific quack, or a big science story in a national newspaper and explains why science in the media is so often pointless, simplistic, boring, or just plain wrong. It is the author's hypothesis that in their choice of stories, and the way they cover them, the media create a parody of science, for…

The culture of modern science continues to establish its public identity by appealing to values and historical conceptions that reflect its appropriation of various religious ideals during its formative period, most especially in the rhetoric of Francis Bacon. These elements have persisted because they continue to achieve similar goals, but the…

Parodies holistic approaches to education. Explains an educational approach which simultaneously teaches grammar and arithmetic. Lauds the advantages of the approach as high student attrition, ease of grading, and focus on developing the reptilian portion of the brain. Points out common errors made by students. (AYC)

Parodies an area of controversy--informal classroom reading assessment. (FL)

Reevaluates Natalie Babbitt's first novel for children 15 years after its first appearance. (RBW)

This ironic indictment of a health care system that continues to allow people to get sick recommends reforms ranging from a merit pay system for doctors to getting tough on uncooperative patients. Parallels with recent proposals for educational improvement are implicit. (MJL)

A parody of Swift that calls for American parents to once again take the responsibility of education for their children by teaching them by computer at home and abolishing the school system. (CRH)

Humorous fantasy of things that might go wrong when a school district purchases a "Lemon" computer. (MLF)

Analyzes outgroup linguistic racism in parodies of Ebonics that appeared on the Internet in the wake of the Oakland School Board resolution on improving the African-American students English skills. Shows that Mock Ebonics is a system of graphemic, phonetic, grammatical, semantic, and pragmatic strategies for representing an outgroup's belief in…

A mock interview with the coach of a fictitious football team about the reasons for and effects of using process orientation as a coaching technique. (CRH)

Contains comment on and Hartwell's response to Patrick Hartwell's "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar" (CE, February l985) and comment on Mikhail Bakhtin's "Rhetorical Theorist" (CE, October l985). (EL)

The initial phase of Porta's mature poetry, composed between 1801 and 1805, is discussed in the context of dialect translation and parody of famous literary texts. (Author/LB)

A whimsical personal narrative that explores the image educators have of prime time television and its effect on the author. (CRH)

Updates the list of classic excuses students make to teachers when their paper is late--this time in reference to the mishaps that may occur with a computer. (CRH)

Art students made sketches of their subject area teachers and created life-sized caricatures of some of them. They then created biographies for their figures and explored their reasons for the stereotypes they developed. (KC)