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If You`re Riding a Horse and It Dies, Get Off [Paperback]

Jim Grant (Author), Char Forsten (Author)

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Publication Date: May 1, 1999

This is a humorour allegory about education, well-intentioned people with unrealistic ideas, and a dead horse. Confused? The book will help explain.

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Paperback: 24 pages
Publisher: Crystal Springs Books (May 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1884548253
ISBN-13: 978-1884548253
Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5 x 0.1 inches
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Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars You must read this book if you are a teacher, March 12, 2001

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Right On Target!, October 16, 2000

Denise D. Hall (Jacksonville, FL USA) - See all my reviews

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I've found on Ed. Reform, November 18, 2002

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars If you're riding a horse and it dies, get off
This book should be read out loud at every PTA meeting in the country- ! The Board of Education should start their meetings with a review of this book, as well. Read more

Published on March 1, 2009 by Charill Pierce

5.0 out of 5 stars If You're Riding a Horse and It dies, Get off
This title is a good way to help a committee to move along. A fun read to help a group move beyond a old idea. A great way to poke fun of many stalled out meetings.

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This book, though some have found it unhelpful at best and offensive at worst, is a great analogy on the ways at which those outside of education think we should fix education... Read more

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This book was read to me in class at Francis Marion University by the esteemed Dr. Lorin Anderson, author of the revised Bloom's Taxonomy. Read more

Published on March 8, 2007 by Nancy L. Stone

3.0 out of 5 stars true, cute, but v. short on solutions
Most anyone who works in the trenches of education-teachers especially-know that a good deal of our time is spent riding (or whipping) dead horses; doing things that just plain'... Read more

Published on April 26, 2005 by Chess Heart

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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. Read more

Published on August 17, 2004 by K. S. Benedick

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Those that have given this book poor reviews obviously do not work in public education or have taken the book too seriously. Read more

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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... Read more

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