Friday, July 5, 2013

Perdido Street School: More Education Deform Buzz Words I'm Sick Of

Perdido Street School: More Education Deform Buzz Words I'm Sick Of:

More Education Deform Buzz Words I'm Sick Of

Readers added some fine examples of education deform jargon and buzz words that many people are just plain sick of to this post from last week.



Here are some:

High Performing Charter Schools (which often are high performing because they toss anybody who doesn't perform at that level out -see here)

Bold Reform.

Transformational Change.

The Best and Brightest.

Teachers as "Human Capital" and children as "Valuable Assets."

STEM

Data-Driven Instruction

Quality Review

Let me add a few more of my own:

Cuomo Puts Five People On His Anti-Corruption Commission Who Broke Campaign Finance Laws

This would be funny if it wasn't so emblematic of what an ethically-challenged person Andrew Cuomo is:

If the new investigative commission Gov. Cuomo charged this week with rooting out Albany corruption wants to find examples of dysfunction in the state’s campaign finance system, it doesn’t need to look beyond its own members.

A Daily News review of the 25 commission members found that at least five of them didn’t follow state election law when filing their own campaign financial disclosure forms, records show.
The five are Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson, Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice, Onondaga County