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Title: Testing Miss Malarkey by Judy Finchler, Kevin O'Malley ISBN: 0-8027-8737-1 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: September, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Someone who finally gets it
Comment: I purchased this book in preparation for a presentation on standardized testing. It definitely added some humor to the dull subject.
How amazing that a "children's" book can get the idiocy of high-stakes testing, but we in education can't do enough to lower the stakes.
A must for any educator trying to make the point of how silly the tests are--or anyone trying to lower the anxiety level just before test time.
Rating: 5
Summary: Give it to an educator!
Comment: Okay, this book is not for kids, it's for teachers, principals, school board members, and others involved in that dreaded springtime ritual we like to call "Standardized Testing" (or as Judy Finchler calls it, the "IPTU Test"). The humor is there, it's just aimed at adults. Kids young enough to enjoy picture book won't get the scarcasm about the stress teachers and administrators go through each year but adults will howl with laughter!
As a teacher, I can honestly say NOTHING in this book is exaggerated...it's all true. The author must be or know a teacher, to understand how agonizing the standardized testing procedure is, and what a meaningless mystery it is to kids. Continuing in the same vein as Miss Malarkey Doesn't Live in Room 10, with a child's-eye-view of teachers, this one also has minimal text and outstanding illustrations. Forget the kids; give this book to a teacher-to-be, or put it in the teacher's lounge during testing week. It will be a sure hit and give them something to chuckle about before they go back to the classroom to say, "Make sure you bubble in the entire circle; make no other marks on the page, do not fold, spindle, or mutilate your answer sheet....."
Rating: 5
Summary: Every legislator should read this book!
Comment: Any teacher who has taught even a year recently well understands the horrors of testing, and days when there are more teachers than students in the nurse's office.
Testing Miss Malarkey deals with the testmania which is being inflicted on our children in a humorous, yet unfortunately accurate way. Schools may not be teaching how to color in circles in art class-but there are many which have eliminated art to make room for test prep.
I would also suggest Susan Ohanian's
"What happened to recess and why are our children struggling in kindergarten"-the adult side of the story, but the same, sad tale.
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Title: If You're Riding a Horse and It dies, Get off by Char Forsten, Jim Grant ISBN: 1884548253 Publisher: Crystal Springs Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: What Teachers Do When No One Is Looking by Jim Grant, Irv Richardson, Patrick Belfiori ISBN: 1884548172 Publisher: Crystal Springs Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: If You Don't Feed the Teachers They Eat the Students: Guide to Success for Administrators and Teachers by Neila A. Connors ISBN: 0865304572 Publisher: Incentive Pubns Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Miss Malarkey Won't Be in Today by Judy Finchler, Kevin O'Malley ISBN: 0802775918 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: What Principals Do When No One is Looking by Jim Grant ISBN: 1884548199 Publisher: Crystal Springs Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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