"Curriculum Crassified"
by Odvard Egil Dyrli *
"Think Metric"
Poster: approximately 14-by-22 inches in full color. $2.00. International Metrication Distributing Company (formally Novelty Discount), Box 2.7, Atlanta, GA
Update Your Curriculum
with ICL/RDA, “Innovative Curriculum Labels for what you were Regularly Doing Anyhow.” Package includes stick-on labels for curriculum guides and “role-buttons” to identify TCs (Teacher Consultants), ACs (Administrator-Consultants), and KCs (Kids in the Classroom). Beat-em-Out, Dept. WE-R-2, Louisville, KY
Reader Curriculum Service
Circle code numerals at random on our postage-paid cards and bring a steady stream of sales representatives to your school. End Loneliness. Gotcha Referrals, St. Louis, MO.
Reading Program Evaluation. Free.
Armed, uniformed salesmen will come to your school and compare your present program with the new Phonicbliltz Externally-Motivated Suresystem. Your students will want to read! Knowkidding Publishing Company, Inc., Dallas TX
Chopped Liver
as an integrated theme: in art activities, as poetic inspiration, its social development, use in warfare, properties of insulation, musical qualities, etc. Write for sample. (Designate with or without mayonnaise.) Teachers Cooperative Deli, Brooklyn N.Y.
Activities Collection
New collection of activities found in other collections of activities, arranged for the first time in new categories. $10.00. Wunmore-Tyme, Omaha, NB
Career Education Series.
Individual booklets give children opportunities to explore less obvious career possibilities: Shepherd, Serf, Weed Puller, Information Booth Attendant, Reconstructionist, Finder’s Keepers, Mother’s Helper. $1 each. Goodcents Ventures, Washington, D.C.
Free Booklet
tells 9- to 15-year-olds what they were too embarrassed to ask. Questions about the Federal Government answered with candor. Rite-to-Know Associates, Washington, D.C.
INTERDISCIPLINARY READING AND KUNG FU PROGRAM
Even your most timid learners will grasp concepts, attack words, 101 general muscle tone phonics exercises. Submit orders to: Ding and Jane Ltd.,San Francisco, CA
GET FUNDING
We will go through any educational proposal and add current buzz words guaranteed to facilitate positive responses from state and federal funding agencies.
Addafad Educational Consultants Major Cities
Creative Recycling
Imaginative classroom uses for farm and industrial waste. Hands-on, total student activities using sludge, chaff, soot and grime.
Klassroom Salvage Co., Chicago, IL
TEACHERS APPRECIATE HONESTY
As soon as we get 10,000 orders for our revolutionary humanistic school curriculum guide, we can start writing it. Delivered in time for start of school assured (year to be announced). Send $20 to Of-the-People, Cambridge, Mass
WE DON'T DISGUISE OUR APPEAL
Get classroom quantities of pocket cards and classroom posters containing product names only. Absolutely no confusing educational messages! Write for free giant catalog. Kidhook Commercial Services, Pittsburg, PA
AFRAID OF TEACHING SCIENCE?
New integrated approach shows you how to designate your present math, reading, or social studies program as "and science." No more need to postpone this subject until the last week of school. Undetectable. Switch! Don't Fight!
Status Quo Educational Outfitters, Yankton. SD
HOMEGROWN NEWSLETTER
THIS HERE THING'S ABOUT FOLKS SCHOOLING IN BUILDINGS AND OUTSIDE AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
Groovy, organic, country-type product. Natural beauty of misspellings, incomplete thoughts and dirty talk. No margins. Copied longhand. Send paper and $15 for two issues. The Peepleskol, Denver, Colo.
MATH-LAV ACTIVITIES
Counter Productive Programs, Charleston, W. VA
Futureschlock
New text identifies emerging curriculum trends that will be discarded tomorrow. Don't get on a bandwagon to nowhere! Exclusive distributor: Vera's Print Shop and Tea Room, New Orleans, LA
European Study Tour Audit for curriculum consultants. Baggage stickers, menus and towels from Copenhagen, Paris, Rome, Monte Carlo, St. Moritz and Vienna. Mail a snapshot to us and we'll position you into 120 pictures of European landmarks. Send for price list.
Impresso Travel Groups, Miami, Ohio
COMPLETE
HANDWRITING CURRICULUM
Teaches all letters in self-pacing, self-instructional format with full set of diagnostic/prescriptive student self-evaluations. 26 behavioral objectives. Attractive leatherette display case contains 33 cassettes, 47 transparencies, 17 film loops, and has optional storage area for pencils and paper. $848 net to schools. Space-Quill, Providence R. I.
THE MUSTY BOOKSHELF
by Odvard Egil Dyrli *
REPORT ON CEILING HEIGHT IN SELECTED CLASSROOMS THROUGHOUT IDAHO
Circular File Series, No. 2736, Professional Curriculum bulletin 311, Southwestern Regional Education Research Bureau of the Determined Consortium of State Superintendents of Public Burden, Coordinated Commission on Appointed Task Forces for the Practical Dissemination of Innovative Practices. One page leaflet. Available in English and Spanish. $1.00 + SH
INUNDATED REVIEW OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH by Nadir Guage
A semi-complete guide to research studies that report "no significant differences." Desired outcomes clearly identified by each researcher eith candid thoughts on "where I screwed up." Contains some of the most exotic varibles, indices and criteria ever assembled. A fireside poppourri of fantasy. Fascinating reading for the science-fiction buff. 1200 pages and more to come. $49 at your local bookstores.
Soft and Desirable: THE INSTIGATED DAY IN THE PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Control and discipline within legal bounds. Unique tactics for maintaining order without fear of legal reprisals. Dress up dressing down with specific parent bewildering technicalities: in locos parentis, primus inter pares, nom de plume, and even the fearsome pomme de terre (use with discretion, of course). $5.95
COLLECTED CONFERENCE CONCLUSIONS. TRAVIS T. HOURBUL, Ed.
Committees should be free to talk and should not have to waste valuable time taking notes and arguing about accuracy of recorded statements. Use this subject indexed giant resource to determine your final recommendations in advance. These pretested conclusions are guaranteed to please everyone! $29.95
HELLO TO YOU--Idea Book
Innovative federally funded social science program on greeting relationships helps you help students to focus upon approaching individuals of all ages. Three years in development by an expert staff of over 200 writers, consultants and researchers, the HTY--IB has sections on games such as "Hi Person!" and "What's New?"; worksheets, projects and songs. e.g. "Hey There..." Watch even your 'lo interest students change to "hi!" level. $16.79
JOY THROUGH RESPECT: AN AFFECTIVE SOURCEBOOK.
By assorted former teachers and hangers-on. The collected scathing attacks upon the schools by groovy, together, real human beings who have successfully survived middle-age crisis. Tead truly beautiful insights on how they would do it if teaching were as lucrative as speaking and writing. Sample contents include: "Dumping the Traditional Teacher," "Intimidating Adminstrators," "Tie-Dying As a Substitute for Reading and Math" and "Getting Parents in Touch with Their Navels." $19.99
THE GRIMMEST BOOK OF WORLD SCHOOL RECORDS
Important statistical information at your fingertips. Names, dates and places: The primary teacher known for the most consecutive days of distributing dittoed outline drawings for children to color... The Intermediate teacher with the world's largest collection of chalk tips... The principal holding the lifetime record for distance in hall-walking. It's all here. Don't guess when you can look it up. Soft cover $6.65
FLOUNDER'S EXTRA-ACTION ANALYSIS. By Flounder and Flunke
The valuable system for coding the nonverbal behaviors in your classroom on a grid to gain a graphic picture of what's in danger of happening. Simple to learn categories include "teacher frown," "student grimace," "child-initiated insurrection," "administrator retribution" and "total disorder." New edition includes valuable supplement: "When to Drop the Clipboard and Run." $27.55 at specialized book vendors only.
COMPLACENCY-BASED EDUCATION By Anonymous et al. (never completed)
Suggested hints on things you might want to teach sometime. Or maybe not. But if you want. It's up to you. We don't care either way. Suggested retail price $9.95, but we will accept what you're willing to pay.
SUFFER, LITTLE BUGGERS! by Macks Raffletree.
CLASSROOM THINGS TO DO WITH CHICKEN PRODUCTS (description unavailable at this time).
Ed. C. Fortune: CRY "SIS!" IN THE CLASSROOM.
The book that launched a new career. Gigantic collection of anecdotes transcribed form the recorded investigative telephone conversations of America's foremost volunteer sexism hunter (author of the widely acclaimed Mongol: Pencil for Black and White). Illustrative hard-hitting chapters: "Tyranny of the Bicycle Bar," "Inequality of Coat-Buttoning Direction," and "Sex Stereotyping of the Gymshoe." Read it all! Unexpurgated!
REAL-LIFE By Amy B. Gamey.
Use actual classroom situations to teach simulation skills. Improve student gamesmanship.
Curriculum Diary: HOW ONE LAME GORILLA, SIX CRAZED TEACHER AIDES, 500 HORNETS AND I THEM HOW TO RUN by Lyme E. Walker.
Smashing physical education activities first taught in British Circus Schools.
Olympus Bulmill, Ph.D.; The "Search Me!" Trilogy-WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE ANYWAY? EDUCATION FOR WHY? and GOT ANY SPARE CHANGE?
The penetrating questions we have all been looking for.
EDUCATION and WHOOPEE by Lennie George.
A devestating look at Friday afternoon, the last two weeks of December, and the end of June.