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Friday, August 3, 2012

More education jargon and what it really means - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

More education jargon and what it really means - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:


More education jargon and what it really means

Here are 10 education terms with definitions that tell you what they really mean to people who use them in our national education conversation.
Yesterday I published the first installment of education jargon, written by Joanne Yatvin, a vet­eran public school educator, author and past president of the National Council of Teachers of English. She is now teaching part-time at Portland State University.
Here’s more jargon:
*School Reform Plans: Untested notions for improving public education, many of which have been tried before with negligible results
*School Reformers : People with impressive titles who have had little or