• Edu-babble

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    edu-babble

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    1. (education, pejorative) jargon on educational topics.
      • 1992, Nov 17, Schoolspeak, Already notorious for edubabble, officials may have hit new depths with a four-page progress report used by the St. Louis public schools.
      • 1998, Andy Hargreaves, International Handbook of Educational Change‎, Overwhelmed teachers yearn to escape the edu-babble of conflicting and unworkable policy directives
      • 2009, Gwendolyn Green, Edu-Babble: The Glamorous World of the New York City Public School System, These terms, this way of talking, is what we like to refer to as “Edu-babble.” Orwell liked to call it doublespeak. Edu-babble is just that, with some hip catchphrases attached. And by hip I mean impractical.
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