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edu-babble en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of education + babble, equivalent to edu + babble.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, uncountable) Jargon on educational topics; writing or speech containing a large amount of education jargon.
   • 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. 2009, Gwendolyn Green, Edu-Babble: The Glamorous World of the New York City Public School System, page 3:
   • Overwhelmed teachers yearn to escape the edu-babble of conflicting and unworkable policy directives 1998, Andy Hargreaves, International Handbook of Educational Change, page 412:
   • Already notorious for edubabble, officials may have hit new depths with a four-page progress report used by the St. Louis public schools. 1992 November 17, “Schoolspeak”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

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