Citing the rising frequency of automobile recalls as proof of the decline of the automobile industry, this article humorously proposes six suggestions for reforming the industry. The suggestions are remarkably similar to recent proposals for the reform of schooling. (PGD)

The problems plaguing a frequently-recalled car provide satirical evidence that permitting students to get by with bad habits in school may enable them to continue their bad habits at work, forcing a wider public to suffer from the results. (PGD)

A short short story illustrates the concept that traditional classroom instructional methods can be less satisfying or motivating to students than hands-on activity. (PGD)

A tenured college professor offering a course entitled "Human Knowledge: An In-Depth Survey" is forced to cancel the course and go into early retirement when students rebel against such "outdated" course requirements as compulsory attendance, written examinations, and grades. (JBM)

Fictional account of educational procedures in the year 2184 A.D. (including "laser projected holoschooling") and of the wide variety of spectacular changes that will have occurred worldwide as a result of advanced behavior modification and new technology available in the first two hundred years after 1984. (JBM)

Satirical projection of the future of education up to 1994 when, says the author, public school enrollment will have dropped to only 13.2 percent of all school children and tuition tax credits will have led to a greatly expanded enrollment in private schools and increasing computer sales. (JBM)

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

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)

Presents a humorous, fictional account of a scientist's secret addiction to a forbidden psychological stimulant: literature. Suggests that the polarization of the teaching of science and of literature has reached alarming and unhealthy proportions. (IW)

Recent reports on educational reform tend to encourage a return to enforced uniformity in American public schools. If public education is to compete successfully with private education, however, increasing numbers of magnet schools should be established to provide diversity and genuine choice among public schools. (JBM)

In satirical verse the author affirms the value of merit pay proposals and laments the lack of action on such proposals that has resulted from indecisiveness concerning criteria for merit pay implementation. (JBM)

Starting on the back cover, this fictional account describes the beginning of a day in "basic training" for a young banker in the twenty-first century who has been drafted by the federal government in its national "teacher draft" to improve teaching quality. (RW)

Presents a fictional account of a teacher who motivates his tough, urban students by teaching them about what they are most interested in--robbery. (WD)

In a fictional story, an educator in 2001 looks back on 20 years of changes in education and society brought about by the computer revolution. (RW)

With tongue in cheek, the author looks at the future consequences on education of a voucher system. (WD)