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What's So Funny About Education?

By: Lou Fournier, Tom McKeith

Foreword by David D. Thornburg

Playful (and very funny) satire offers fresh insights on education!

For everyone who has ever thought that the truth about education is stranger—and funnier—than fiction, here is the book that proves you right!

Never has there been a greater need for comic relief for educators, as teachers, administrators, students, and parents alike become increasingly frustrated with the shortcomings and dizzying fluctuations in the educational system. Using satire and affectionate humor, author Lou 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. The author shares wildly humorous observations and editorials that both individually and collectively provide thought-provoking kernels of wisdom.

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9780761939344
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2003
Page Count: 108
Publication date: May 25, 2015

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"Fournier has firmly placed one foot in the pragmatic world of today, while the other points toward a future view of education where teachers and students are treated with respect, and all learners achieve to the best of their abilities. He does this through the medium of humor, and you are in for a genuine treat."
—From the Foreword by David D. Thornburg, Director
Thornburg Center

Playful (and very funny) satire offers fresh insights on education!

For everyone who has ever thought that the truth about education is stranger—and funnier—than fiction, here is the book that proves you right!

With an engagingly satiric approach, the author spares no topic in casting a wide net over education, covering music and the arts, school culture, leadership, assessment, staff development, history, technology, higher education, and so many more.

Author(s)

Lou Fournier

Monthly Feature writer for Converge magazine

Associate, Thornburg Center for Professional Development
Author, Storm Before the Calm (ASCD, 2002)

Lou Fournier is an Associate in the Thornburg Center for Professional Development. He is co-authir of Enlighten Up! An Educator's Guide to Stree-free Living (ASCD 2003) and author of Power and Purpose (2003). He has had careers in journalism, training and development, music, marketing, and as a corporate executive for education technology companies. Lou has been a guest of the President of the White House. His insights into purposeful use of music have been filmed for a Master's degree program for Walden University by Canter & Associates. He currently writes a humor column for Converge magazine. In the Field of music, Lou has won numerous awards for songwriting and performing.

Tom McKeith

Tom McKeith was born in Dumbarton, Scotland, in 1948. He moved to the USA at the age of 22 to study photography at the University of Connecticut. Subsequently he moved to California to continue his studies. He had the great fortune of spending five summers studying with Ansel Adams at his Photographic Workshops in Carmel. Having attained a Masters Degree in Photography at California State University a Fullerton he began teaching the subject at California State University at Los Angeles. At the same time he was also carving a niche for himself as an illustrator in the magazine and book publishing industry. It was this circumstance which led him to move to Sacramento, California, where he was offered a position as an editorial illustrator for e.Republic.

Table of Contents

About the Author

About the Illustrator

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Dog Days of Leadership

Ge the Third Degree From EIT

Quantum Connections and the Flea Market School

How the Facts of Learning San the FAQs of Scripting

Aisle Four: Frozen Food and Education

Net Trek, Episode One: Voyage of the Browser

Tonight's Episode of "School Improvement"

Live at the Interstate Internet Lounge

Mortal Assessment Versus Overlord of Algebra

Thinking Comes to College

The Story of PINokio

Instant Staff Development in Good Taste

Dearth of a Salesman

How the Schmall and the Marines Came to Schools

The Truth of Teen Talk

Home-School-Mall Connection

My Big Appearance on Who Wants to Be a Staff Developer

Singin' the Blues for a Real Good Cause

A Clearer Seer: The Education Prophecies of Nostracosa

The Blazing Electrons' Winning Season

To Spin, Perchance to Dream

How Doc the Techie Saved Our School

Totally Unrehearsed Techno Telemarketing

Here's the Windup and the Pitch!

How to Win the Assessment Game and a Nice Toaster

From Here to Perplexity

Slim Spud and the Case of the Maltese Parakeet

Where Mosquitoes and Teacher Salaries Came From

Singin' in the School!

Curriculum in the Castle

The Techwreck Threat

Getcher Higher Ed Right Here

Sometimes You Can't Give Good Education Marketing Away

The Curtain Rises on ProDevelopment Theatre

Hot Thoughts From Idle Hands

Elma Explains Education

Reviews

"Fournier has firmly placed one foot in the pragmatic world of today, while the other points toward a future view of education where teachers and students are treated with respect, and all learners achieve to the best of their abilities. He does this through the medium of humor, and you are in for a genuine treat."

From the Foreword by David D. Thornburg, Director
Thornburg Center

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