Presents a satiric list of "aids" suggested by Augustana College student teachers who had just completed their field experience. (Author/SJL)

This satire reports an imaginary research study which found three motivations for educational innovation: money, happiness, and garlic. The article facetiously traces the careers of three innovators: the director of an institute, a government official, and a popular writer. (SJL)

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)

Satirical/fictional account of one superintendent's obsessions with high technology, computers, and computer literacy. (JBM)

Presented is a satirical look at a computer (Art Stabilization Systematizer) which is designed to replace art teachers. (KC)

The moral of this fable is that the inevitable clash between standard measurement techniques and innovative approaches to evaluation and measurement must be resolved in a manner which is relevant to the problem under study. (GDC)

A satire about high school guidance counseling and the way seniors plan their futures. (SJL)

Provides an alternative version of Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree" which highlights the story's satirical import. (DD)

A parable showing how teachers in the past and the present have attempted various methods of teaching reading and how no method has succeeded in making readers of all pupils. (GT)

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)

With tongue in cheek, a suburban school superintendent presents tips he has developed himself and gleaned from his fellows on how not to get fired. Included are: cultivate a "low-brow" image, blame the Feds, and schedule your contract renewal meeting to follow a state championship. (SJL)

A facetious private detective story embroidered with literary interpretation, autobiography, logical positivism, David Hume on personal identity, and "The Happy Hooker." (RL)

In the form of a play, a brief discussion is presented of program evaluation problems at the elementary/secondary education level. (PN)

This rendering of a principal's address to his teaching staff at the start of a new school year takes a satirical swipe at those administrators who would solve students' disciplinary problems by increasing teachers' duties. (PB)

In this "non-paper not prepared for the Canadian Education Association Convention," the author muses over education's absorption with overlapping special populations and wonders who is left to be average. (SJL)