English

Alternative forms

• edubabble

Noun

edu-babble ‎(uncountable)

1. (education, pejorative) jargon on educational topics.
   • 1992 November 17, “Schoolspeak”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

     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, page 412:

     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, page 3:

     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.

References

• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6523323.stm