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

Presented is a satire on employee training, retraining, efficiency experts, consultants, team training, peer teaching, and behavioral objectives--based on the training of apple sorters at the Fantabalous Fruit Farm. (KC)

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)

An analogy between the banned book and a dangerous drug forms the basis for this parody of censorship of literary works. (KS)

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

Describes the value of parody play as part of classroom activities one teacher experienced with her students. (MP)

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…

Article emphasized the need for using humor in the classroom and how it can serve the teacher by helping with his instruction of subjects sometimes difficult to teach. (RK)

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)

A fantasy about a high school principal endowed with miraculous powers, showing how he solves various school problems. (SJL)

With attention to Carlyle's and his contemporaries' reactions to his humour, this study examines Carlyle's theory and describes important practical successes and difficulties he had with it." (Author)