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Summary: what a joke
Review: I bought this book for my girlfriend who is an elementary school teacher thinking it would have some funny anecdotes about teaching. It is a joke. This is not a book, it is more like a pamphlet. It just uses old, overused attempts to poke fun at various teaching/administrative methods (i.e. forming committees, throwing money at the problem, having standardized testing). Basically it is a childlike book that critiques all of these methods (through a cartoon about riding a dead horse) and provides the final answer to get off the dead horse and "try something new!" Oh how brilliant.
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Summary: what a joke
Review: I bought this book for my girlfriend who is an elementary school teacher thinking it would have some funny anecdotes about teaching. It is a joke. This is not a book, it is more like a pamphlet. It just uses old, overused attempts to poke fun at various teaching/administrative methods (i.e. forming committees, throwing money at the problem, having standardized testing). Basically it is a childlike book that critiques all of these methods (through a cartoon about riding a dead horse) and provides the final answer to get off the dead horse and "try something new!" Oh how brilliant.
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Summary: Dont waste your money
Review: I only wish I had taken jakasaur's review more seriously. Dont waste your money. It is not funny and not helpful.
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Summary: If You're Riding a Horse and It Dies, Get Off
Review: I think this book is terrific. It is a realistic look at the tangled webs we weave in education. I am certain that some people will be offended but everyone I have shared this book with wants to know where they can get a copy of their own.
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Summary: Not funny and not helpful, why bother?
Review: Possibly the dumbest book that I've ever read... Why anyone would recommend it I have no idea. I question whether or not Forsten and Grant have ever been in a public school or seen the inside of a principal's office. This dimwitted oversimplification of the educational process and its problems is neither innovative nor humorous. It does little more that point out the obvious, that the world is full of idiots who cry and point fingers when they don't have real solutions. Public school teachers should teach in golden palaces, be paid salaries higher than rock stars and all drive hybrid Hummers to work. Write me a book that tells me how to do that and I'll buy it. In the mean time, read some Dr. Seuss, get an original thought, and learn how to solve some problems.
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Summary: Simple and to the point
Review: Sometimes common sense is the best solution to a problem. In our scientific research based times, we often overlook the best ideas that are right in front of our noses. This book reminds us that if what we are doing doesn't work...do something else! Great motivator.
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Summary: Just Read the Title
Review: This book consists of exactly eighteen sentences; the title tells the whole story. I thought I was ordering a book that would provide some insights. It does not.
I am a teacher, I get it, and I am not amused. Next time, I will explore the book thoroughly before spending my money.
Too bad I can't assign less than one star.
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Summary: You must read this book if you are a teacher
Review: This book was read to my teaching staff as we were talking about the changes in education and aligning our curriculum with the Maine State Learning Results. I am a first year teacher and laughed along with my fellow teachers, some who have been teacher for longer then I have been alive! It puts the changes in education into a cute story that we all know. Everyone has an idea of how to make education better, but sometimes you have to start over from scratch. Buy it, read it, and share it with your fellow teachers when you need a laugh.
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Summary: Right On Target!
Review: This book will put a smile on any educator's face who has been in education for three or more years. This caricature highlights the many "solutions" offered to the educational world. My colleagues and I could not stop laughing. (If we can't laugh at ourselves, we most certainly have lost all hope.) Great gift idea for anyone feeling overwelmed by the next solution past down by someone who "knows better."
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Summary: The best book I've found on Ed. Reform
Review: This is the best book I've found to explain the rationale for educational change to faculty and staff. Everyone who sees it immediately apprehends the point of why we need change.
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